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pycnostyle, a. and n. Arch.|ˈpɪknəʊstaɪl| [ad. L. pycnostȳlos (Vitruvius), a. Gr. πυκνόστῡλος, f. πυκνός dense + στῦλος column.] a. adj. Having close intercolumniation; having the space between the columns equal to one diameter and a half of a column. b. n. A building having such intercolumniation.
[1563Shute Archit. F j b, Picnostylos whose..pillers standeth distant from echeother a Diameter, & a halfe or .2. at y⊇ furdest.] 1697Evelyn Acc. Archit. Misc. Wks. (1825) 391 The rest [of the columns]..plac'd as the pycnostyle closer to one another. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 466. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 315/2 Within the court the colonnades were pycnostyle. 1849Freeman Archit. 319 The wide intercolumniations of the later Grecian edifices probably came nearer to the primitive model than the old Doric pycnostyle. |