Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Wholly or partly open to the sky.
from The Century Dictionary.
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hypethral .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Exposed to the air; wanting a roof; -- applied to a building or part of a building.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Open-air ,outdoor , exposed to thesky .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective partly or entirely open to the sky
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As usual in Al-Islam, it is a hypaethral building with a spacious central area, called Al-Sahn, Al-Hosh, Al-Haswah, or Al-Ramlah,7 surrounded by a peristyle with numerous rows of pillars like the colonnades of an Italian cloister.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The stranger stands awe-struck before walls high towering without a single break, a hypaethral court severe in masculine beauty, a gateway that might suit the palace of the Titans, and a lofty minaret of massive grandeur.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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As far as I could discover, the tradition has no foundation, and in old times there was no garden in the hypaethral court.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Equally irregular are the Riwaks, or porches, surrounding the hypaethral court.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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From time immemorial, in hot and rainy lands, a hypaethral court, either round or square, surrounded by a covered portico, was used for the double purpose of church and mart, — a place where God and Mammon were worshipped turn by turn.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The four Riwaks, or porches, of the Madinah Mosque open upon a hypaethral court of parallelogramic shape.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The exposed foundations of the eastern and western walls, where the torrent has washed away the northern enceinte, show that, after the fashion of ancient Egypt, sandstone slabs have been laid underground, the calcaire being reserved for the hypaethral part.
The Land of Midian 2003
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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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From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honour of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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The hypaethral is decastyle in both front and rear porticoes.
The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio
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December 2, 2008
reesetee commented on the word hypaethral
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December 2, 2008
qms commented on the word hypaethral
The worshippers, eager and gleeful,
Now thronging their civic cathedral
In service of sport
Send prayers of support
To heaven from temples hypaethral.
June 1, 2018