Word Meanings - PROTO-DORIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found.
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- FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - STYLET
A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - DORICISM
A Doric phrase or idiom. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - 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. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - DESIGNATOR
An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates. - DESIGNATIVE
Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - 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. - SUPPOSURE
Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras. - FOUNDLING
A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings. - SUPPOSABLE
Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - SUPPOSITIVE
A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc. Harris. - SUPPOSITITIOUS
1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly, - DORIC
Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order. Note: This order is distinguished, according - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - ARAEOSTYLE
See INTERCOLUMNIATION - CYCLOSTYLE
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - SURSTYLE
To surname. - AMPHIPROSTYLE
Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n. - INSTYLE
To style. Crashaw. - ENDOSTYLE
A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata. - GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800. - DODECASTYLE
Having twelve columns in front. -- n. - POLYSTYLE
Having many columns; -- said of a building, especially of an interior part or court; as, a polystyle hall. -- n. - CYRTOSTYLE
A circular projecting portion.