in antis

[ in an-tis ]

adjective

, Architecture.

1. 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.
2. noting or pertaining to the row of columns or the portico in such a building.

Word History and Origins

Origin of in antis¹

First recorded in 1660–70; from Latin in antīs, literally “in, between the pilasters” (ablative plural of antae ); anta ( def )

Example Sentences

It was in the form of a small Doric temple in antis, and had its entrance on the east.

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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.

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They consisted of a gate faced on the outside with a projecting portico of four columns, on the inside with two columns in antis.

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They are all planned like a temple in antis,—the earliest form, from which the peripteral easily follows.

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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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