octastyle

[ ok-tuh-stahyl ]

adjective

, Architecture.

1. having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.

Example Sentences

The Parthenon was of the Doric order of architecture, and was of the form termed peripteral octastyle; that is to say, it was surrounded by a colonnade, which had eight columns at each end.

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In other words Agrippa’s portico was decastyle; the actual portico is octastyle.

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It was peripteral, octastyle; that is, surrounded with a portico of columns, with eight to each façade.

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These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principle of the pseudodipteral octastyle.

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If an octastyle is to be constructed, let the front be divided into twenty-four parts and a half.

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