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s, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture. Many other architectures besides Gothic. Ruskin.

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

f an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.

Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

Composed of shells; containing many shells.

A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.

One who resolves religion into prayer. [Obs.] Gauden.

British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.

One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church.

A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

A name of the Hesychasts, from their habit of gazing upon the navel.

Inflammation of the testicles.

See Peshito.