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Definition of Trabeate
1. Adjective. Not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches).
Definition of Trabeate
1. constructed with horizontal beams [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trabeate
Literary usage of Trabeate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1846)
"trabeate architecture is the most ancient. Very little reflection will show that
a system of construction, identical with that of the primitive timber hut, ..."
2. Architecture as a Branch of Aesthetic, Psychologically Treated by Denton Jaques Snider (1905)
"First and simplest is the door with three beams — two vertical with the horizontal
tie-beam above, or the purely trabeate. Second is that of the two ..."
3. A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1871)
"They are divided, like wooden, into trabeate, Arcuate, and Suspension. The stresses,
strains, and calculations are, of course, the same for them as for ..."
4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"The trabeate form of construction was common to the primitive inhabitants ...
The early Romans' buildings were therefore trabeate in principle, ..."
5. A History of Architecture in All Countries from the Earliest Times to the by James Fergusson (1876)
"... almost certainly those whose traditions and whose taste inclined them much
more to the old trabeate forms than to the newly-introduced arched style. ..."
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