Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In architecture, having columns which stand somewhat close together; having the intercolumniations rather narrow in proportion to the diameter of the shafts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Arch.) Having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. See
intercolumniation .
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- adjective architecture Having a space equal to two
diameters or fourmodules between twocolumns ; said of aportico orbuilding . - noun A systyle
temple or otheredifice .
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Examples
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The systyle is a temple in which the thickness of two columns can be placed in an intercolumniation, and in which the plinths of the bases are equivalent to the distance between two plinths: for example, the temple of Equestrian Fortune near the stone theatre, and the others which are constructed on the same principles.
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In the eustyle temple, let the height of a column be divided, as in the systyle, into nine and a half parts, and let one part be taken for the thickness at the bottom of the shaft.
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The columns are then to be distributed over the stylobates in the manner above described: close together in the pycnostyle; in the systyle, diastyle, or eustyle, as they are described and arranged above.
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In the systyle, let the height be divided into nine and a half parts, and one of these given to the thickness of the column.
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But if the building is to be systyle and monotriglyphic, let the front of the temple, if tetrastyle, be divided into nineteen and a half parts; if hexastyle, into twenty-nine and a half parts.
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There are five classes of temples, designated as follows: pycnostyle, with the columns close together; systyle, with the intercolumniations a little wider; diastyle, more open still; araeostyle, farther apart than they ought to be; eustyle, with the intervals apportioned just right.
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