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Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

Framework; structure; edifice; building. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation. Milton.

The front part of an edifice or lot; extent of front.

ge door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.

or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion. Houses are built to live in; not to look on. Bacon. Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away. Shak.…

; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart.

An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.

m a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; from a porch, in being intended not for entrance but for an out-of-door sitting-room.

A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.

ern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.

Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.

n simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.

Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.

A polystyle hall or edifice.

Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge. [R.] Milton.

ion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton.

The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

are, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.

Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.

ression; a cut; a plate. [Obs.] At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence. Addison.