octastyle

American  

[ok-tuh-stahyl] / ˈɒk təˌstaɪl /

adjective

Architecture.

1. having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.

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Example Sentences

Then, whether the temple is to be tetrastyle, hexastyle, or octastyle, let one of these parts be taken, and it will be the module.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

In other words Agrippa’s portico was decastyle; the actual portico is octastyle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

The Parthenon was of the Doric order of architecture, and was of the form termed peripteral octastyle; that is to say, it was surrounded by a colonnade, which had eight columns at each end.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

If an octastyle is to be constructed, let the front be divided into twenty-four parts and a half.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principle of the pseudodipteral octastyle.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio