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Definition of Systyle
1. a. Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See Intercolumniation.
Definition of Systyle
1. a building with intercolumniation of two diameters [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Systyle
Literary usage of Systyle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"... in the manner already described, at intervals which are determined by the
species of temple intended to be built, whether pyc- nostyle, systyle, ..."
2. ... An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, Comprising the by Albert Gallatin Mackey, Edward L. Hawkins, William James Hughan (1912)
"He may or he may not afterward fabricate a Rite. But the Rite would be only a
consequence, and not a necessary one, of the system. systyle. ..."
3. The American Vignola by William Robert Ware, Vignola (1904)
"The ancients thought that even the systyle columns, ... the columns are small,
since otherwise it might be difficult to get between them, and the systyle, ..."
4. A Naval and Military Technical Dictionary of the French Language: In Two by Robert Burn (1870)
"... systyle. T small tool used in foundries, of which ' the larger branch forms
the handle, and the smaller to measure the mean thickness of shells; ..."
5. I.C.S. Reference Library: A Series of Textbooks Prepared for the Students of by International Correspondence Schools (1909)
"... one diameter (that is, two and one-fourth diameters on centers, instead of
two), to avoid crowding. The ancients thought that even the systyle columns, ..."
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