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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.

 

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