epistylen.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 11 The bottom thereof of the columne, wherevpon was placed the Epistile [It. epistilio] or streight beame.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 287 The walls and pauement of polished marble..with pillars, and Epistals of like workmanship.

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 339 A single Cirque of stones without Epistyles or Architraves.

1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. ii. iii. 62 Fora..adorn'd with Marble Pillars and Epistyles of the same.

?1794 E. Ledwich Grose's Antiq. Ireland I. Introd. p. v Lofty pyramids and ponderous epistyles.

1860 T. Lewin Jerusalem 224 Which would yield about 23 feet for..each epistyle measured from the centres of the columns.

1914 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 34 87 No architect would venture to load the epistyle over the enormous central columniation of the portico with colossal figures.

1977 S. Kostof Architect 16 Chersiphron..also wrote a book... In it he explained his new mechanical devices for transporting heavy columns and epistyle blocks from the quarry to the site and hoisting them into position.

2006 Classical Q. 56 644 The fragments of the epistyle suggest that this building should be dated to the imperial period.

1848 W. H. Leeds Rudimentary Archit. 76 This mode of uniting together columns and arches is perfectly legitimate, whereas that in which a fragment of the usual entablature is left sticking or added to each column (as, for instance, in the interior of St. Martin's Church,) is decidedly solecistical, since it is injuriously reminiscent of epistylar construction or trabeation.

1901 R. Sturgis Dict. Archit. & Building I. 922/2 Epistylar, pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by an architrave or epistyle.

2002 M. Landfester et al. Brill's New Pauly Encycl. Classical Trad. II. 872 The influential Deutsche Bauzeitung..categorically ruled out a strictly Hellenistic epistylar structure for the Berlin Reichstag.