Definition of Ionic order

1. Noun. The second Greek order; the capital is decorated with spiral scrolls.

Exact synonyms: Ionian Order
Generic synonyms: Order

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ionic Order

Io
Ioannina
Ioannis
Iodamoeba
Iona
Ionesco
Ionia
Ionian
Ionian Island
Ionian Islands
Ionian Sea
Ionian mode
Ionian order
Ionians
Ionic
Ionic order
Ions
Iora
Ios
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Iowa
Iowa crab
Iowa crab apple
Iowan
Iowans
Iowas
Ioway
Iphigeneia
Iphigenia
Ipidae

Literary usage of Ionic order

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

1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"ionic order. One of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the ... This remark applies only to the fully or partially developed ionic order, ..."

2. The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER V PROPORTIONS OF THE BASE, CAPITALS," AND ENTABLATURE IN THE ionic order 1. THIS finished, let the bases of the columns be set in place, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"For the Corinthian order, the Greeks borrowed with slight variations the entablature for their ionic order, and the Romans employed this modified ..."

4. History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1887)
"The Romans were much more unfortunate in their modifications of the ionic order than in those which they introduced into the Doric. ..."

5. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"The prototypes of the ionic order are to be found in Persia, Assyria, Fig. ... Originally the ionic order had no Frieze and no Echinus in the Capital. ..."

6. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry, and Building: A General Reference by American Technical Society (1916)
"Pedestal and Impost — Ionic Keir Console — Roman ionic order — Corinthian Order ... Doric Colonnaded Gallery—ionic order over Doric—Corinthian over ..."

7. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"ionic order. One of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the ... This remark applies only to the fully or partially developed ionic order, ..."

8. The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"CHAPTER V PROPORTIONS OF THE BASE, CAPITALS," AND ENTABLATURE IN THE ionic order 1. THIS finished, let the bases of the columns be set in place, ..."

9. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"For the Corinthian order, the Greeks borrowed with slight variations the entablature for their ionic order, and the Romans employed this modified ..."

10. History of Architecture in All Countries: From the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1887)
"The Romans were much more unfortunate in their modifications of the ionic order than in those which they introduced into the Doric. ..."

11. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1905)
"The prototypes of the ionic order are to be found in Persia, Assyria, Fig. ... Originally the ionic order had no Frieze and no Echinus in the Capital. ..."

12. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry, and Building: A General Reference by American Technical Society (1916)
"Pedestal and Impost — Ionic Keir Console — Roman ionic order — Corinthian Order ... Doric Colonnaded Gallery—ionic order over Doric—Corinthian over ..."

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