单词 | stele |
释义 | stelen. 1. Ancient History. a. An upright slab bearing sculptured designs or inscriptions. Sometimes loosely applied to any prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., covered with an inscription. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone stone847 standing stone1180 longstone1651 hoar-stone1666 pillar-stone1723 lech1768 holed-stone1769 stela1776 bluestone1812 menhir1819 stele1820 monolith1836 tanist-stone1851 megalith1853 orthostat1909 society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > inscribed tablet, slab, or plate tableOE tabletc1350 titlea1382 tablature1578 aback1592 plate1668 breastplate1773 stela1776 stele1820 brass plate1836 palimpsest1876 plaque1922 society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone > others pyramida1500 stela1776 paramoudra1816 stele1820 peristalith1872 talayot1872 taula1881 slab-stone1891 1820 T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. x. 303 A superior class of members..had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column. 1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. I. v. 70 It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb. 1833 H. Ellis Elgin Marbles II. x. 169 A large sepulchral stele. 1847 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art §224. 193 In Egypt they [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars). 1873 Contemp. Rev. 21 568 With inscriptions either on steles or columns, or on tablets. 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile vi. 143 Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff. 1882 T. K. Cheyne Prophecies of Isaiah xvi. 12 (note) The Stele of Mesha..was found in a depression between the two hillocks. 1884 A. Lang Custom & Myth 285 The Australian stele, or grave-pillar. b. Architecture. (See quot. a1840.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments pommela1300 crest1430 finial1448 balloon1592 brattishingc1593 knob1610 cartouche1611 ogive1611 fret1626 galace1663 acroterion1664 paternoster1728 semi-urn1742 patera1776 purfling1780 sailing course1807 vesica piscis (also piscium)1809 antefix1819 vesica1820 garland1823 stop1825 Aaron's rod1830 headwork1831 Vitruvian scroll1837 hip knob1838 stelea1840 ball-flower1840 notch-head1843 brandishing1846 buckle1848 cat's-head1848 bucrane1854 cresting1869 semi-ball1875 canephorus1880 crest-board1881 wave pattern1905 husk1934 foliate head1939 green man1939 a1840 Hosking Archit. in Encycl. Brit. III. 470 Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated. 2. Botany. [ < French stèle (Van Tieghem & Douliot 1886, in Bull. de la Soc. bot. de France XXXIII. 216).] The axial cylinder in the stems and roots of vascular plants, developed from the plerome. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > stele meristele1894 stele1895 protostele1901 eustele1902 monostele1902 siphonostele1902 polystele1904 1895 S. H. Vines Students' Text-bk. Bot. 179 The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch..diarch..triarch..tetrarch..polyarch. 1898 H. C. Porter tr. E. Strasburger et al. Text-bk. Bot. 109 The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820 |
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