A dictionary of the architecture and archaeology of the middle ages : including words used by ancient and modern authors in treating of architectural and other antiquities, also, biographical notices of ancient architects (1883)
Britton, John, 1771-1857, Le Keux, John, 1783-1846, Godwin, George, 1813-1888 · London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row; and the Author, Burton Street · leaf 39
abbreviations and contractions, are fully explained, in alphabetical order, at the end of the Preface. ABACISCUS. Lat.; from alSayjffy.og,Gr., the dimin. of a/3a;; abacisci,plur. Small tesseraa, or squarestones, for tessellated pavements :also, small square, tablets, orbrackets, used to support… … sion, of a capital, on which the entablature, inClassic architecture, rests. It forms an essentialpart of the column in the Grecian and Romanstyles, and is found in almost every variety ofcolumn in Christian architecture.* Its shapevaries in all the classic orders. In those of theTuscan and Doric,…
