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architectonic, a. and n.|ˌɑːkɪtɛkˈtɒnɪk|
[ad. L. architectonic-us, a. Gr. ἀρχιτεκτονικός, f. ἀρχιτέκτων: see architect n. and -ic. Cf. F. architectonique (14th c. in Littré).]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to architecture; suited or serviceable for the construction of buildings.
1645Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 219 Incrusted with marbles and other architectonic ornaments. 1774G. White Selborne xx. (1843) 235 With what different degrees of architectonic skill Providence has endowed birds. 1850J. Leitch Müller's Anc. Art §17 There are musical and architectonic, but no plastic instincts. 1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 188 To harmonize with the architectonic requirements. 1931E. Wenham Domestic Silver ii. 8 The various ornamental bands such as the egg and tongue, the ovolo, acanthus leaves and other foliation,..were all of architectonic origin. 1936Burlington Mag. Apr. 191/1 The general effect produced by Boulle is somewhat plastic and architectonic.
2. Of or pertaining to construction; constructive.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. xxiii. 406 The Demiurgus, or Architectonick Framer of the whole world. 1846Grote Greece i. xxi. II. 191 The architectonic functions ascribed by Wolf to Peisistratus..in reference to the Homeric poems.
3. Having the function of superintendence and control, i.e. having the relation that an architect bears to the artificers employed on the building; directive, controlling. (So used in Gr. by Aristotle.)
1678Hist. Indulg. in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery 74 Architectonick and Magisterial Power of making Laws. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets iii. 82 Aristotle so regarded one of their most important aphorisms on architectonic supremacy of justice.
4. esp. in Metaph. Pertaining to the systematization of knowledge.
1801W. Taylor in Month. Mag. XII. 422 These days of architectonic metaphysicians. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. III. xv. viii. §1. 227 Classification is the architectonic science, to which Crystallography and the Doctrine of External Characters are subordinate. 1877Caird Philos. Kant ii. xvi. 575 The architectonic impulse of reason, which seeks to refer all science to one principle.
B. n. architectonic(s [F. l'architectonique]: the science
a. of architecture;
b. Metaph. of the systematic arrangement of knowledge.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. iii. vi. 72 The Invention of Letters, of Musick, of Architectonicks. 1838Sir W. Hamilton Log. App. (1866) II. 230 That [science] which treats of those conditions of knowledge which lie in the nature, not of thought itself, but of that which we think about..has been called..Architectonic, in so far as it treats of the method of building up our observations into system. 1850J. Leitch Müller's Anc. Art §42 A style of architectonics..which aimed at magnificence. |