Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a double row of columns on all sides, as certain Greek temples.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entom., having two wings only; dipterous.
- In arch., consisting of or furnished with a double range of columns: said of a portico.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having two wings only; belonging to the order Diptera.
- adjective (Anc. Arch.) Having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having two
wings only. - adjective Belonging to the order of insects
Diptera . - adjective Having a double row of
columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear, often said of atemple .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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CONNALLY: Very strange, dipteral, unbelievable, like something that couldn't have happened, just couldn't have happened.
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[139] Pseudo-dipteral (inner row of columns omitted).
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He did so by dispensing with the inner rows of thirty-eight columns which belonged to the symmetry of the dipteral temple, and in this way he made
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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Hence it was that when, about four hundred years later, King Antiochus promised to pay the expenses of that work, the huge cella, the surrounding columns in dipteral arrangement, and the architraves and other ornaments, adjusted according to the laws of symmetry, were nobly constructed with great skill and supreme knowledge by Cossutius, a citizen of Rome.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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In everything else it is the same as the dipteral, but inside it has two tiers of columns set out from the wall all round, like the colonnade of
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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First there is the temple in antis, or [Greek: naos en parastasin] as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The dipteral also is octastyle in both front and rear porticoes, but it has two rows of columns all round the temple, like the temple of
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The temple of the +Olympian Zeus+ at Athens (Fig. 39), a mighty dipteral Corinthian edifice measuring 354 by 171 feet, standing on a vast terrace or temenos surrounded by a buttressed wall, was begun by Antiochus Epiphanes (170 B.C.) on the site of an earlier unfinished
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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{59} Herr T. Scheffer of Modling, near Vienna, gives the following characteristic of this new dipteral animal, which belongs to the family muscidae, and resembles the species borborus:
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