triapsidal

[ trahy-ap-si-dl ]

adjective

, Architecture.

1. having three apses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of triapsidal¹

1870–75; tri- + apsidal ( def )

Example Sentences

Apsid′iole, a secondary apse, as one of the apses on either side of the central or main apse in a church of triapsidal plan.

From Project Gutenberg

The triapsidal chapel, entered through an elliptical ante-room, beyond the sacristy, was probably a relic chapel, and is of the sixth century—a mosaic of that date was found here five feet below the surface; but the vaulted passage by which it is approached is of the thirteenth century, while the superstructure of the chapel is Venetian, added to assist in the defence of the place from this side, for the sea is quite close.

From Project Gutenberg

On a slight eminence overhanging the sea stands Querqueville, with its older and its newer, its lesser and its greater, church, the two standing side by side, and with the outline of the greater—the same triapsidal form marking both—clearly suggested by the smaller.

From Project Gutenberg

It is a triapsidal cross church, without aisles, with an apsidal termination at the E. end of the chancel and at the N. and S. ends of the transept.

From Project Gutenberg