octastyle

[ ok-tuh-stahyl ]

adjective

, Architecture.

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

Example Sentences

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

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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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Hexastyle: Having six columns; as in the case of octastyle for eight.

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The hexastyle temple is necessarily more high and more narrow than the octastyle building.

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