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- domically adverb
Etymology
Origin of domical
Example Sentences
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"Out there on the desert�just the dunes, me and my feet," mused Telly Savalas, domical Big Daddy of TV's Kojak series.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the fall of Rome and the rise of Constantinople these forms underwent in the East another transformation, called the Byzantine, in the development of Christian domical church architecture.
From A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
Sergius and Bacchus was a domical church, while SS.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
S. Mary Abchurch, is nearly square in plan, has no columns and is covered with a domical ceiling, but so skilfully treated that the effect is singularly pleasing.
From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Heath, Sidney
The figures bend forward awkwardly beneath the curve of the vault, which becomes domical, with angels and cherubs upon it.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
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