domical

[ doh-mi-kuhl, dom-i- ]

adjective

1. domelike.
2. having a dome.

Other Words From

• dom·i·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of domical¹

First recorded in 1840–50; dome + -ical

Example Sentences

They support a gently domical, 80-foot-high, 4.4-acre expanse of translucent, milky-white fabric membrane covered in polytetrafluoroethylene — Teflon, by any other name — with two 500-ton panels that can open or close over a 250-by-250-foot opening to the sky.

From New York Times

Bramante emphasized the domical or Byzantine type.

From Project Gutenberg

"Out there on the desert�just the dunes, me and my feet," mused Telly Savalas, domical Big Daddy of TV's Kojak series.

From Time Magazine Archive

To resist the thrust, the walls across the aisles were built up to the roof, and had external buttresses, the diagonal ribs instead of following the elliptical curve which the intersection of the Roman semicircular barrel vault gave to the groin, were made semicircular, so that the web or vaulting surface which rested on these ribs rose upwards towards the centre of the bay, giving a distinct domical form to the vault.

From Project Gutenberg

Domical Vaulting.—Vaulting in which a series of small domes are employed; in contradistinction to a waggon-head vault, or an intersecting vault.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bulbous
• curled
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