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(historical) In Ancient Rome, a small sacrificial altar.
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(informal) A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.
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(architecture, Christianity) A partition, often richly decorated, separating the nave from the chancel in a church; a rood screen.
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A monumental memorial resembling an altar, often with a canopy.
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a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church
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Placed in the manner of an altar, against the eastern wall of the chancel with the longer side parallel to that wall.
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The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
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Having an amphitheatre.
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The outer part of the west end of a chapel.
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The part of a church in front of the choir, often reserved for the clergy and choristers.
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(ecclesiastical) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.
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(architecture) A place on the south side of the chancel in primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc.
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(architecture) A row of arches.
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Resembling an arcade (row of arches).
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Pertaining to an arcade.
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(uncountable) Abbreviation of archery. [(uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.]
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(architecture) A tomb in an arched recess in a wall.
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The symbol of a rod entwined with a serpent, which represents healing and medicine.
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(architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
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(architecture) A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
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Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
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A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
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(architecture) The central hall or court within an Ancient Roman house.
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Having the quality of champerty; being an instance of champerty.
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(architecture) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
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A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc.
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Archaic spelling of colosseum.
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(architecture) Of the Corinthian Greek order.
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(architecture) The principal mass of a building, excluding the wings.
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(architecture) A three-sided ceremonial courtyard, created by flanking the main central block, or corps de logis, with symmetrical advancing secondary wings containing minor rooms.
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(obsolete) Cristate; crested.
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An ornamental or symbolic sculptural representation of Christ on a cross, often worn as a pendant or displayed in a Christian church.
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The canopy over an altar, etc.
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(theater, Ancient Greece) A corridor that divided sections of an Ancient Greek theatre.
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A cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church.
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(historical) An arcade or porticoed street in Constantinople.
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The right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.
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An inner narthex (in a church).
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(architecture) In classical Greek architecture, the uppermost course of a building's foundations, partly emerging from the groundline.
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Alternative form of exedra [(architecture) A semicircular recess, with stone benches, used as a place for discussion.]
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(architecture, Christianity) The space anterior to the narthex of a church, sometimes roofed-over as with a porch, but more often an enclosed courtyard; in antiquity, the courtyard where catechumens were permitted to be close to the Eucharist, but forbidden to see it celebrated.
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A niche on the south side of an altar, containing the piscina and sometimes the credence.
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(Christianity) A decorative drapery covering the front of an altar.
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(architecture) A narthex, particularly in the United Kingdom and the Church of England; a vestibule, a fully-enclosed yet porch-like structure, leading to the main body of an English ecclesiastical building.
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(architecture) An Armenien style of narthex.
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(architecture) A pavilion or similar structure in an elevated position in parkland.
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(architecture) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
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(architecture) The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch.
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A stand with a slanted top used to support a bible from which passages are read during a church service.
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(architecture, historical) The rectangular great hall in a Mycenaean building, usually supported with pillars.
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The upper surface of an altar.
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(historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.
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(architecture) Of a building: having a mezzanine or intermediate level.
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A ledge, sometimes ornately carved, attached to a folding church seat to provide support for a person standing for long periods; a subsellium.
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(architecture) A western vestibule leading to the nave in some Christian churches.
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(architecture) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
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(architecture) A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.
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A room between the vaulting and the roof of a church
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(architecture) In Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture, the chapel of the prothesis or the diaconicon, or sacristy, where divided by walls from the bema or sanctuary.
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(obsolete) A churchyard or cemetery.
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A side entrance to an Ancient Greek theater, affording access to the stage or orchestra.
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The porch of a church, or the room over it.
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Alternative spelling of parvis [An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral.]
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(Christianity, archaic) A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary.
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(architecture) The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar.
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A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
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The innermost parts of a building, such as a shrine, recess or a sanctuary within a temple.
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(architecture) Having a pentice.
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Alternative form of parvis [An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral.]
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An enclosed or arcaded fountain.
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(architecture) Synonym of calefactory: the room holding an abbey, convent, or monastery's communal fire.
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The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers.
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(architecture) A type of concrete urban housing block in postwar Greece.
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(with definite article) The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).
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A raised step near the base of a Christian altar.
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(architecture) The inner area of the portico of a Greek or Roman temple
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(historical contexts, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) Alternative form of propylaeum. [(historical contexts, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) A vestibule or entrance, (especially) to a temple.]
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(historical contexts, especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome) A vestibule or entrance, (especially) to a temple.
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A massive, often decorative screen of stone or timber that divides the choir from the nave and ambulatory in medieval cathedrals and monastic churches.
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A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.
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(historical) A celebrated portico in Athens, containing numerous paintings.
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(chiefly Western Christianity) A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images, akin to the iconostasis of the Eastern Churches.
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A votive picture, especially one displayed above and behind the altar in a church.
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(architecture) In an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
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A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
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A projecting ledge on the stalls in a church where persons might lean whilst standing during prayers; misericord.
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(architecture) A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, suitable for holding objects; a predella or gradino.
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A cloth placed over the top of an altar, often hanging down a few inches over the frontal.
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Of the style or character of an architectural tabernacle; formed in latticework; latticed.
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A figure of a man (often Atlas) used as a pillar for support.
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(architecture) A small, temple-like building
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A barrier between the nave and the altar in a Byzantine church.
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A building, especially a church, that has four apses
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Designating a kind of burial monument with side rooms extending laterally from a central chamber.
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(architecture) A large entrance hall in a temple or palace.
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(historical, architecture, in Ancient Greece) A long and open portico within the gymnasium.
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A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
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