Definition of Apophyge

1. n. The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape.

Definition of Apophyge

1. Noun. (architecture) A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns. ¹

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Definition of Apophyge

1. a concave curve in a column [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apophyge

apophatically
apophatism
apophenia
apophenias
apophlegmatic
apophlegmatics
apophlegmatism
apophlegmatisms
apophlegmatizant
apophonies
apophony
apophthegm
apophthegmatic
apophthegmatical
apophthegms
apophyge (current term)
apophyges
apophylaxis
apophyllite
apophyllites
apophysary
apophyse
apophyseal
apophyses
apophysial
apophysial fracture
apophysial point
apophysis
apophysis conchae
apophysis helicis

Literary usage of Apophyge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Finis pyramidis; or, Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific by Thomas Gabb (1806)
"base, to regulate the size of the apophyge by the greate? or less ... jn which case I think the radius of the apophyge may be about 4 minutes : but Barbaro ..."

2. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"In the bold version at Bassai, the quarter-round apophyge in normal ... The apophyge is 0. 1 16 m. wide in radial cross section, but as it drops from the ..."

3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"apophyge. The outward spread of the bottom of a shaft to form the fillet or cincture by which it joins the base ; also applied sometimes to the similar but ..."

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