architectonics
Americannoun
noun
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the science of architecture
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metaphysics the scientific classification of knowledge
Etymology
Origin of architectonics
First recorded in 1650–60; architectonic, -ics
Example Sentences
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The play continues to make music central to the trilogy's architectonics.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2018
“What’s so extraordinary about Pina’s work is that it doesn’t start from the architectonics of movement; it starts from the autobiography of the dancers,” Peter Sellars, the theater director, said in a telephone interview.
From New York Times • May 31, 2012
Typical of MacNeice's poetic architectonics are this poem's lame off-rhymes gainsaying its skipping rhythm, its ringing-in of contemporary figureheads, economic policies, modes and means of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elsewhere his use of such architectonics sometimes seems awkwardly overt, more often deftly apt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only skilful surgery on Thomas's part carries the play to success, for we are nearly always irritated by the degree to which he falls short of real meat in spite of all the beautiful architectonics.
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura by Thomas, Augustus
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