Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gallbladder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, a bladder; a cyst; a sac; especially, the urinary bladder, or urocyst, the permanently pervious part of the allantoic sac.
- noun In botany, same as
vesile .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bladder.
- noun (Eccl. Art) A glory, or aureole, of oval shape, or composed of two arcs of circles usually represented as surrounding a divine personage. More rarely, an oval composed of two arcs not representing a glory; a solid oval, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A
bladder , especially theurinary bladder or thegall bladder . - noun The
vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In Latin the mandorla is called the vesica piscis, or fish bladder, another oval shape.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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In Latin the mandorla is called the vesica piscis, or fish bladder, another oval shape.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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Of course, this device is properly called the vesica everter.
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The statues are arranged in five horizontal lines from north to south, exclusive of the figure in the "vesica," the oval above.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874
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The footprint of the Cathedral is a vesica piscis (“fish bladder” in Latin), an oval with pointed ends created by the intersection of two circles of the same radius.
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Its floor plan is contained within the proportions of a vesica.
Prince Charles Reflects On 'Sacred Geometry' Bryan Maygers 2010
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As the illustration demonstrates, the centre point of the vesica sits at the very centre of the building so that the North and South doors, seen here on the left and right, are exactly positioned.
Prince Charles Reflects On 'Sacred Geometry' Bryan Maygers 2010
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The great Belle Verrière window, for example, which depicts the Madonna and Child, sits perfectly within a vesica and thus perfectly within the floor plan of the cathedral, with every significant point in the design of the window corresponding to key positions in the geometry of the rest of the building.
Prince Charles Reflects On 'Sacred Geometry' Bryan Maygers 2010
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Its floor plan is contained within the proportions of a vesica.
Prince Charles Reflects On 'Sacred Geometry' Bryan Maygers 2010
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As Professor Critchlow has shown, the infant Christ's throat, from which the entire Christian tradition was eventually spoken, falls at the very centre of the vesica and therefore at the very heart of the building.
Prince Charles Reflects On 'Sacred Geometry' Bryan Maygers 2010
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