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decastyle, a. Arch.|ˈdɛkəstaɪl|
[mod. ad. L. decastȳlus, a. Gr. δεκάστῡλος having ten columns, f. δέκα ten + -στῡλος column. Cf. F. décastyle (1694 in Hatzf.), décastile (1762 in Acad. Dict.).]
Consisting of ten columns; (of a building) having ten columns in front. Also n. A portico or colonnade of ten columns.
1727–51Chambers Cycl. Decastyle, in the antient architecture, a building with an ordonnance of ten columns in front.—The temple of Jupiter Olympius was decastyle. Ibid. s.v. Hypæthros, Of hypæthrons, some were decastyle, others pycnostyle. 1727Bailey vol. II, Decastyle, that has 10 Pillers. 1832W. Wilkins in Philol. Museum I. 543 We should have an octostyle and a hexastyle temple as illustrations of the hypæthral decastyle species. |