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Definition of Epistyle
1. n. A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.
Definition of Epistyle
1. Noun. (architecture historical) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; an architrave. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epistyle
1. a part of a classical building [n -S]
Medical Definition of Epistyle
1. A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; now called architrave. Origin: L. Epistylium, Gr.; upon + column: cf. F. Epistyle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epistyle
Literary usage of Epistyle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"CHAPTER 18 THE DORIC epistyle A COMBINATION of pry cuttings and raised beddings
at one quadrant on the top surfaces of the abaci, a bronze leveling shim, ..."
2. Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America by Archaeological Institute of America, William Cranston Lawton, Joseph Silas Diller, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1898)
"The blocks of the inner epistyle, like those of the outer, were somewhat less
finely tooled upon their bed surfaces than upon their exposed soffits, ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"But the entablature built into this wall—epistyle, triglyph, metope, and cornice —all
were arranged exactly as in the old temple, so as not only to serve as ..."
4. Finis pyramidis; or, Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific by Thomas Gabb (1806)
"intercolumn, the two ends of each epistyle must come right under the middles of
the two triglyphs, which stand over the columns in the freeze ; of course ..."
5. Corinth: The Centenary, 1896-1996 by Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis (2002)
"On a fragment of a much smaller epistyle from the area of the Theater, however,
... In the case of the small epistyle associated with the Apsidal Building, ..."
6. The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The Classical Building by William Bell Dinsmoor (2004)
"is a weathered trace 0.54 flu from the face of the block, and since the bottom
of the epistyle overhung the face of the wall by 0.034 m, the width of the ..."
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