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substruction|səbˈstrʌkʃən|
[ad. F. substruction or L. substructio, -ōnem, n. of action f. substruĕre to substruct.]
1. Arch. The under-structure of a building or other work.
1624Wotton Elem. Archit. 23 We must first examine the Bed of Earth..vpon which we will Build; and then the vnderfillings or Substruction, as the Auncients did call it. 1650Fuller Pisgah ii. xii. 259 It was contrived into rooms, and fortified with substructions therein, fit for the receipt of a Prince. 1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 532 A great quadrangular portico.., whereof the substructions only now remain. 1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. (1825) I. 33 Higher up is the vaulted substruction or basement of a large temple. 1838Arnold Hist. Rome v. I. 52 The massy substructions of the Capitoline temple. a1842Ibid. xliii. (1843) III. 91 The road therefore was restored, and supported with solid substructions below. 1866Felton Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. ii. 285 A part of this road is still to be seen..with the ruined masses of the immense substructions which supported it. 1898G. A. Smith Bk. Twelve Prophets II. xxxvii. 530 Upon terraces and substructions of enormous breadth rose storied palaces, arsenals, barracks, libraries, and temples.
attrib.c1676Wren in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 534 The Ground plot of the Substruction Cloister.
2. fig. A basis, foundation.
1765Blackstone Comm. i. xiii. 405 The laws of Oleron..are received by all nations in Europe as the ground and substruction of all their marine constitutions. 1766Ibid. ii. iv. 51 A substruction and foundation of their new polity. 1822T. Erskine Ess. Faith (1825) 33 A scaffolding or substruction for the doctrine. 1887[E. Johnson] Antiqua Mater 232 The historic ‘substruction’ of a system supported by astrological calculation.
†3. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1656Blount Glossogr., Substruction, an underpinning or grounselling of a house. 1728Chambers Cycl.
Hence subˈstructional a. (in recent Dicts.). |