单词 | posticum |
释义 | posticumn. Architecture and Archaeology. 1. A back door or gate; spec. a portico or apartment at the back of an ancient Greek or Roman temple, behind the cella, and corresponding to the pronaos in front.Equivalent to the Greek opisthodomos (see opisthodomos n.). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > narthex or portico > [noun] parvisc1387 Galileec1593 portico1607 pronaos1614 propylaeum1637 out-porch1641 ante-temple1670 narthex1673 prostyle1683 opisthodomos1706 peribolos1706 choultry1772 posticum1776 propylon1830 proaulion1842 opisthodome1846 atrium1853 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Posticum is the Postern-Gate, or Back-door of any Fabrick. 1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xiv. 72 In the sculpture of the posticum..Theseus is distinguished in the same manner. 1820 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. x. 286 The columns..belonged either to the posticum or pronaos of the temple. 1848 Amer. Whig Rev. Sept. 241/1 It appears to have been a decastyle, with ten columns in the pronaos and posticum, and nineteen in each of its flanks, after the Roman manner. 1882 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 14 6 Within the wall, on the eastern side, was another hall or posticum, nineteen feet deep and terminated by another Doric portico of six columns, with its entablature and pediment. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Archeol. 16 556 Its width..should conform within reason to the standard of four Doric columns of the size known to have stood in the pronaos and posticum. 1953 Greece & Rome 22 110 There is no mention of a porter on or off duty at Lucretia's house, but may we suppose that Collatine, being the master, let himself in at a posticum or back entrance? 1961 G. N. Banerjee & M. R. M. Lal Hellenism in Anc. India ii. i. §2 40 The ordinary Greek peripteral temple is surrounded on all sides by a peristyle of columns, and contains a pronaos or front porch, a naos or sanctuary and at the rear an opisthodomos or back porch, known to the Romans as posticum. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > altar > parts of altar > [noun] > back reredos1447 altarpiece1624 altar screena1691 retable1817 superaltar1847 gradin1877 posticum1890 1890 Cent. Dict. 4642/2 Posticum,..a reredos. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704 |
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