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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PSEUDO-PERIPTERAL

Pseu `do-pe *rip "ter *al, a. Etym: [Pseudo- + peripteral: cf. F.pseudopériptère.] (Arch. )

 

Defn: Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n.

 

Defn: A pseudo-peripteral temple. Oxf. Gloss.

 

PSEUDO-PERIPTERAL

Pseu `do-pe *rip "ter *al, a. [Pseudo- + peripteral: cf. F.pseudopériptère.] (Arch. )

 

Defn: Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n.

 

Defn: A pseudo-peripteral temple. Oxf. Gloss.