eustyle

[yoo-stahyl]

adjective

1. having an intercolumniation of 2¼ diameters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eustyle¹

1555–65; < Greek eústȳlos well columned (i.e., with the columns well spaced); eu-, -style ²

Example Sentences

Chap. 2.He likewise makes mention of another Famous Author, who found out the proportion of all the Parts of a Fabrick, which was Hermogenes; to whom he attributes the Invention of the Eustyle, Pseudodiptere, and of all that is beautiful and excellent in Architecture.

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Eustyle, from εὖ bene, and στὺλος a Pillar; its the Order where Pillars are rightly placed, the Intercolumniations being two Diameters and a quarter.

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The Fifth is called Eustyle; viz. where the Pillars are distant from one another by a more convenient Proportion than in any of the other kind.

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As to the Diastyle and Eustyle, the height is divided into Eight parts and an half, to give one to the breadth.

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There is no certain Proportion; we have given in this Figure four Diameters of Intercolumniation, it may have more: The fifth sort called Eustyle, is in the third Table.

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