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Ionic, a.1 and n.|aɪˈɒnɪk|
[ad. L. Iōnic-us, a. Gr. Ἰωνικός: cf. F. ionique (16th c.).]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians: = Ionian a. 1. Ionic dialect, the most important of the three main branches of ancient Greek, of which also the Attic was a development. Ionic school or sect of philosophy, that founded by Thales of Miletus in Asiatic Ionia.
1602Carew Eng. Tongue in Camden Rem. (1614) 43 Will you haue Platoes veine? reade Sir Thomas Smith, the Ionicke? Sir Thomas Moore. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 94 He saw the Cadmean letters engraven in a Temple at Thebes, much like the Ionike letters. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. ii. §4 The difference of the former Philosophers of the Ionick sect, after the time of Thales, as to the material principle of the world. 1702tr. Le Clerc's Prim. Fathers 8 The Ionick Sect ended in Archelaus, Master of Socrates. 1731Blackwall Sacr. Class. II. i. ii. 56 Frequent in the Ionic and poetical dialect. 1821Byron Sardan. i. ii. 38, I know each glance of those Ionic eyes. a1829J. Young Lect. Intell. Philos. xl. (1835) 399 The system of the original Ionic school.
2. Arch. Name of one of the three orders of Grecian architecture (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian), characterized by the two lateral volutes of the capital.
[1563Shute Archit. E iv b, Tuscana, Dorica, Ionica, Corinthia, and Composita, increase their heightes by Diameters.] 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. iii. 33 Two high pillers Ionique without heads. 1614Selden Titles Hon. Ded. A ij a, Architecture of olde Temples..was either Dorique, Jonique, or Corinthian. 1705Elstob in Hearne Collect. 30 Nov. (O.H.S.) I. 107 Capitals of y⊇ Ionick size. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 302 A large triangular space, approached by an Ionic vestibule, and enclosed by a Doric colonnade.
3. Mus. (See Ionian a. 2 a.) ? Obs.
1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Oct. 27 The Lydian and Ionique harmony. 1674Playford Skill Mus. i. 61 The Ionick Mood was for more light and effeminate Musick. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxiii. 534 There were four principal νόµοι or modes; the Phrygian, the Lydian, the Doric, and the Ionic..The Phrygian mode was religious..the Ionic, gay and cheerful.
4. Gr. and Lat. Pros. Name of a foot consisting of two long syllables followed by two short (‘ionic a majore’), or two short followed by two long (‘ionic a minore’); pertaining to or consisting of such feet: see B. 3. Ionic metre, a metre consisting of Ionic feet.
B. n.
†1. = Ionian n.; a member of the Ionic School of philosophy. Obs.
1594R. Ashley tr. le Roy's Interch. Var. Things 61 a, The Philosophers..diuided themselues into two sects, thone being called Ionicques, thother Italiques. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 93 These letters..being by the Ioniks principally learned.
2. The Ionic dialect of ancient Greek.
1668Wilkins Real Char. i. i. §3.
3. Gr. and Lat. Pros. An Ionic foot or verse; Ionic metre: See A. 4.
1656Blount Glossogr., Ionick..a certain foot in a verse consisting of two long syllables and two short. 1885R. C. Jebb Œdipus Tyrannus p. lxxxi, When the ionic ––˘˘..is interchanged with the dichoree –˘–˘.
4. Typogr. A type face distinguished by prominent serifs and a high degree of legibility.
1842H. Caslon Specimen of Printing Types in Two Centuries of Typefounding (Caslon Letter Foundry) (1920) 71 (caption) Diamond two-line Ionic. 1934A. F. Johnson Type Designs viii. 205 Ionic in some cases appears to be only another name for Egyptian. 1954Archit. Rev. CXVI. 119/1 Ionic, or Clarendon, is familiar to all readers of The Architectural Review as a type face. It can also be pleasing and useful as an architectural letter. 1970W. P. Jaspert et al. Encycl. Type Faces (ed. 4) 121 The first Ionic was a bold face cut by Caslon and shown 1842... It has been revived as a suitable newspaper type... Linotype Ionic was introduced in 1926 in the Newark Evening News.
Add:[A.] [4.] (Examples.)
1784J. B. Seale Analysis Greek Metres ii. i. viii. 29 The two species of Ionic Feet are not to be intermixed in the same Verse. 1830J. Seager tr. Hermann's Doctrine of Metres xxxviii. 98 The change in the numbers is not made in one Ionic foot, but in two, the end of the one, and the beginning of the other being changed. 1949Oxf. Classical Dict. 567/1 The view..that the anacreontic is derived from the ionic dimeter by the interchange of the final long of the first metron with the opening short of the second. |