systyle
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of systyle
1695–1705; < Latin systȳlos < Greek sýstȳlos, equivalent to sy- sy- + -stȳlos -style 2
Example Sentences
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But if the building is to be systyle and monotriglyphic, let the front of the temple, if tetrastyle, be divided into nineteen and a half parts; if hexastyle, into twenty-nine and a half parts.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
In the systyle, let the height be divided into nine and a half parts, and one of these given to the thickness of the column.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The columns are then to be distributed over the stylobates in the manner above described: close together in the pycnostyle; in the systyle, diastyle, or eustyle, as they are described and arranged above.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
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