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Definition of Prostyles
1. prostyle [n] - See also: prostyle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prostyles
Literary usage of Prostyles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of the Greeks and Romans Described from Antique Monuments by Ernst Karl Guhl, W. Koner (1896)
"In his sketch of the different forms of the temple Vitruvius mentions after the
anta>temple the prostyles. This name already indicates a temple in which the ..."
2. Treatise on Architecture, Including the Arts of Construction, Building by William Hosking, Arthur Ashpitel, Thomas Tredgold, Thomas Young, John Robinson (1867)
"The Doric order was never used by the Greeks in mere prostyles ... with the
numeral which expresses the number of columns in each of its prostyles. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Doric order was never used by the Greeks in mere prostyles ; consequently
there is no Doric temple of the ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"This edifice moreover affords almost the only instance1 in the Grecian style of
distinct porticos or prostyles projecting from a building [PORTICO], ..."
5. The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio by Vitruvius Pollio, Joseph Gwilt (1874)
"An example of the prostyles exists in the temple of Jupiter and Faunus, in the
island of the ... TYLOS is similar to the prostyles, but with this addition, ..."
6. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1834)
"... signifying • not having a wing,' or ' without wings ;' and in this sense it
is applied to a temple having prostyles, or porticoes of columns projecting ..."
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