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attic, n.2 (orig. a.)|ˈætɪk|
[a. F. Attique, ad. L. Atticus: see prec.]
1. A decorative structure, consisting of a small order (column and entablature) placed above another order of much greater height constituting the main façade. This was usually an Attic order, with pilasters instead of pillars; whence the name.
[1676Félibien Princ. Archit. 481 Nous appellons aussi Attique dans nos bastimens un ordre que l'on met sur un autre beaucoup plus grand..Ce petit ordre n'a ordinairement que des Pilastres d'une façon particuliere, qui est à la maniere Attique dont le nom luy a esté donné.] 1696Phillips, Attick, we call Attick in our Buildings a little Order plac'd upon another much greater: for that, instead of Pillars, this Order has nothing but Pilasters of a particular Fashion and Order which is call'd Attick. [not in ed. 1678.] 1760Raper in Phil. Trans. LI. 804 The height of the attic [in the Pantheon] above the cornice it stands upon, is 27 feet 23/4 inches. 1874J. Fergusson St. Paul's in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 750 The introduction of an Attic over the main Order.
2. attrib. quasi-adj. in attic storey: originally the space enclosed by the structure described in prec. sense; hence, the top storey of a building, under the beams of the roof, when there are more than two storeys above ground. So attic-floor, attic-room, etc.
1724De Foe, etc. Tour Gt. Brit. (1769) I. 74 The Rustic and Attic Stories are 12 Feet high each. 1769Phil. Trans. LIX. 72 They have no Attic story, only ware-houses, and one floor over them. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iii, The attic floor of the highest house.
3. The highest storey of a house, or a room in it; a garret. Humorously, the ‘upper storey,’ the brain.
1817Byron Beppo xxv, His wife would mount, at times, her highest attic. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 464 Betaking himself with his books to a small lodging in an attic. 1870Alford in Life (1873) 467 Tolerably well all day, but the noise in the attic unremoved.
4. Anat. The upper part of the tympanum of the ear.
1889J. Leidy Elem. Treat. Human Anat. (ed. 2) xvi. 893 The attic of the tympanum is a pyramidal cavity above the atrium with which it communicates by a horizontal, fore and aft oval aperture. 1891Med. Ann. 159 Pathological Changes in the External ‘Attic’ of the Tympanic Cavity. 1900Dorland Med. Dict. 87/1 Attic, the part of the tympanum that is situated above the atrium. |