antepagmentn.
/ˌantᵻˈpaɡm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌæn(t)əˈpæɡmənt/α. 1600s antipagment, 1700s– antepagment.
β. 1600s– antepagmenta (plural), 1900s– antepagmentum.
Classical Architecture.
A door jamb or frame, esp. one which is carved or decorated; (also occasionally) such a carving or decoration. Frequently in plural.
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1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Antipagments,..garnishings in Posts or Doors wrought in Stone, or Timber.
1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 133 In Chimneys the Architrave is the Mantle; and over the Antepagmenta or Iambs of Doors and Lintells of Windows the Hyperthyron.
1771 W. Newton tr. Vitruvius Archit. iv. vi. 83 The thickness of the front of the antepagments.., is the fourteenth part of the height of the aperture.
1810 W. Gell Itinerary Greece 146 The antepagments do not consist of separate and appropriate stones, but are merely the common blocks of the wall cut into three receding faces.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 893 Antepagmenta, in ancient architecture, the jambs or moulded architraves of a door.
1946 S. Kramrisch Hindu Temple II. viii. 314 The names of the antepagments denote the themes which are carved on them.
1967 Classical Rev. 17 231/1 We have made up our minds whether to speak of the Tuscan, the Tuscanic, or the Tuscanian order and do not like such words as antepagments, rhopography, and fronton even if they are in a glossary.
1992 J. S. Curl Classical Archit. 199/1 The antepagmentum supports the lintel or supercilium.
2004 H. F. Mallgrave & M. Robinson tr. G. Semper Style in Techn. & Tectonic Arts 404 As a frame, the antepagment is related to a form much older than the architrave.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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