hecatompedadj.
/hɛkəˈtɒmpɪd/ Measuring a hundred feet in length and breadth; a hundred feet square.
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hecatomped1703
1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients cxlvi. 343 I'll pass over..the Hecatomped Temples.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Pagan or Christian? in Mem. (1860) 193.
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hecaˈtompedism n. (also hecatompedonismirregular) applied to the system of exact proportions in architecture.
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a1854 Ld. Cockburn Pagan or Christian? in Mem. (1860) 72 Admirers of Grecian Hecatompedonism and the mathematical exactness of a fixed series of Ratios in the proportions of a structure.
hecaˈtompedon n. [Greek ἑκατόμπεδον] a temple of these dimensions, as the Parthenon at Athens.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > temple > [noun] > hecatomped
hecatompedon1773
1773 W. Melmoth Remarks in tr. Cicero Cato 239 The Athenians, after they had completed the building of the temple called the Hecatompedon, exempted from all future toil those beasts of burden, whose labours had assisted in carrying on that sacred edifice.
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