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in antis
[ in an-tis ]
adjective
- noting or pertaining to a classical temple in which the antae extend to form the sides of a recessed portico, which has a row of columns.
- noting or pertaining to the row of columns or the portico in such a building.
Word History and Origins
Origin of in antis1
Example Sentences
It was in the form of a small Doric temple in antis, and had its entrance on the east.
This structure, which was in the form of a small Doric temple in antis, appears to have suffered from the building above it having been shaken down by an earthquake.
They consisted of a gate faced on the outside with a projecting portico of four columns, on the inside with two columns in antis.
They are all planned like a temple in antis,—the earliest form, from which the peripteral easily follows.
The temple is a Doric peripteral hexastyle in antis, with 13 columns at the sides; its length is 104 ft., its breadth 45� ft., its height, to the top of the pediment, 33 ft.
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