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‖ pseudisodomon Anc. Arch.|psjuːdaɪˈsɒdəmɒn|
[neut. of Gr. ψευδισόδοµος adj. (Vitruvius), f. ψευδ- (see pseudo-) + ἰσόδοµος (see isodomon).]
A method of building in which the courses were of unequal height, length, or thickness, but the blocks alike in each course. Hence pseudiˈsodomous a., of the nature of or pertaining to this.
1601Holland Pliny II. 593 In case they be not euen laid nor ranged streight, but that some part of the wall is thicker than others, they terme it Pseudisodomon. 1706Phillips, Pseudisodomon,..a kind of Building, the Walls of which are made of Stone of an unequal Thickness. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §222 (ed. 2) 219 The walls are isodomous or pseudisodomous, often with oblique joints. |