Crossword-Solution: APOPHYGE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apophyge | n. | The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| COLUMN, outer curve at top/bottom of | 1 answer |
| COLUMN, curve of | 2 answers |
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Sentences with APOPHYGE (5)
The apophyge is the inverted cavetto or concave sweep, on the upper edge of which the diminishing shaft rests.
APOPHYGE, APOPHYGIS (Gr.), the curving out of the top or bottom of a column from the capital or base.
The necking upon the columns of Sicilian temples is not merely the straight commencement of the channellings, but often forms, under the rings, a slight scotia--the apophyge--which weakly detaches the echinos from the shaft by interrupting its organic connection.
The separation of the capital from the shaft by an apophyge was abandoned; the entasis was made steeper and of a more vigorous outline.
The third beneath--the necking of the column--which, in the Greek prototype, was divided from the shaft only by slight incisions or an apophyge, was in this separated by a roundlet; what in Greek architecture was based upon technical necessities, in Etruria became an unmeaning decoration.