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

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.

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

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It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.

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The dipteral also is octastyle in both front and rear porticoes, but it has two rows of columns all round the temple, like the temple of Quirinus, which is Doric, and the temple of Diana at Ephesus, planned by Chersiphron, which is Ionic.

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There is no example of this sort in Rome, but in Athens there is the octastyle in the precinct of the Olympian.

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