Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The period of maximum severity or intensity of a disease or fever.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A period of continuous fever in an acute disease, when the temperature has ceased to ascend but has not yet begun to fall.
- noun A projection in the roof of the fourth ventricle of the brain.
- noun The summit, apex, or ridge of a building, or of a pediment.
- noun The pediment of a portico: so called in ancient architecture because it followed the form of the roof.
- noun [NL.] In entomology, the extreme point of the front or apex of the head when, as in many Orthoptera, it is produced in a conical prominence.
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- noun An
apex orsummit - noun architecture A
pediment orgable end - noun pathology The most
intense phase of adisease (especially afever )
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(Cæsar, c. 81) expresses it by the Latin word "fastigium," and also
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
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Maiestatem V. sapientiæ & prudentiæ, omniúmque adeò virtutnm heroicarum indies incrementa sumentem, ad summum imperij fastigium, summas ille regnorum, omniúmque adeò rerum humanaram dispensator,
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Maiestatem V. sapienti� & prudenti�, omni鷐que ade� virtutnm heroicarum indies incrementa sumentem, ad summum imperij fastigium, summas ille regnorum, omni鷐que ade� rerum humanaram dispensator,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Frontal fastigium: in Orthoptera, that process of the face extending dorsad between the antennae and meeting or nearly meeting the fastigium of the vertex in Tettigidae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
pavonine commented on the word fastigium
The period of maximum severity or intensity of a disease or fever
December 16, 2007