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A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

Used in building; proper for building. Derham.

The science of architecture.

Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp.

The science of architecture.

An architect. [Obs.] North.

A female architect.

Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.

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

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

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

basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are also sometimes placed upon the gables in Gothic architecture. J. H. Parker.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

ion in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

mused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay.

Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. -- Ang…

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

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

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.