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systyle, a. and n. Arch.|ˈsɪstaɪl| [ad. Gr.-L. systȳlos (Vitruvius), a. Gr. σύστῡλος, f. σύν syn-1 + στῦλος column, pillar. Cf. F. systyle.] A. adj. Applied to architecture in which the columns are close together, viz. at a distance from each other of twice their thickness. B. n. A building characterized by such intercolumniation.
[1563Shute Archit. F j, Sistylos,..whose pillers standeth distant one from the other .2. Diameters, or .2. and a halfe at the fourdest.] 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Systyle..is a Building where the Pillars stand thick, but not altogether so close as in the Pychnostyle. 1771W. Newton tr. Vitruvius' Archit. iii. iii. (1791) 52 note, The eustyle intercolumns may likewise be two and a half diameters, as the mean between those of the dyastyle and systyle, instead of two and a quarter, which is nearer to the systyle. 1789P. Smyth tr. Aldrich's Archit. (1818) 147 Whose inter⁓columniations in the middle are systyle, on each side pycnostyle. 1844Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 23/2 The Pantheon at Rome is a systyle. |