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noun

Architecture n.

The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; often called civil architecture. "Many other architectures besides Gothic."

Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. "The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees." "The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture."

Military architecture, the art of fortifications.

Naval architecture, the art of building ships.

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Etymology of 'Architecture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Architecture" Quotes from Famous Books

... It has been a dream of metaphysicians, that the soul shaped its own body. If this many-throated singing creature could have sung itself into an external form, it could hardly have moulded one more expressive of its own nature. We must leave to those more skilled in architecture the detailed description of that noble facade which fills the eye with music as the voices from behind it fill the mind through the ear with vague, dreamy pictures. For us it loses all technical character in its relations to the soul of which it is the body. It is as if a glorious anthem ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various

... rifle, cut a watch wheel, or rule a series of lines, measuring forty thousand to an inch, with sureness which the unaided hand can never equal. Machinery is a triumph of handicraft as truly as sculpture and architecture. The fingers which can plan and build a steamship or a suspension bridge, which can make the Quinebaug and the Blackstone turn spindles by the hundred thousand, which can turn a rag heap into spotless paper, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

... Epernay offers little remarkable except its Rue du Commerce, flanked with enormous buildings, and its church, conspicuous only for a flourishing portal in the style of Louis XIV., in perfect contradiction to the general architecture of the old sanctuary. The environs were little note worthy at the season, for a vineyard-land has this peculiarity—its veritable spring, its pride of ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 • Various

... successful educational books ever published. The present edition is from the eighty-fourth London edition. The sale in England has reached a hundred thousand copies. A mere glance at the book will explain its popularity. It embraces the elements of Mythology, Astronomy, Architecture, Heraldry, as well as Ancient and Modern History, and gives exactly that kind of information which every body needs. The first principles and foundations of knowledge are often imperfectly understood by persons moderately learned. Few have any ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 • Various

... plateresque (a highly ornate style of architecture combined with sculpture; it flourished in Spain ...

— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos

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