Word Meanings - OGIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.

Related words: (words related to OGIVE)

• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• GOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• VAULT
  An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• GOTHICIZE
  To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
• GOTHICISM
  1. A Gothic idiom. 2. Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture. 3. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
• DIAGONALLY
  In a diagonal direction.
• VAULTER
  One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. B. Jonson.
• VAULTED
  Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers. (more info) 1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof. 2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
• VAULTAGE
  Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. Shak.
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• CROSS-VAULTING
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
• MOESOGOTHIC
  Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia.
• BIVAULTED
  Having two vaults or arches.
• PANGOTHIC
  Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races. "Ancestral Pangothic stock." Earle.