单词 | pronaos |
释义 | pronaosn. 1. Architecture. In an ancient Greek or Roman temple: the space in front of the naos or cella, enclosed by the portico and the projecting side walls. Also in extended use: a vestibule or similar area in other buildings, as the narthex of some early Christian churches. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > narthex or portico > [noun] parvisc1387 Galileec1593 portico1607 pronaos1614 propylaeum1637 out-porch1641 ante-temple1670 narthex1673 prostyle1683 opisthodomos1706 peribolos1706 choultry1772 posticum1776 propylon1830 proaulion1842 opisthodome1846 atrium1853 1614 T. Godwin Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia i. i. xx. 17 They had their pronäon, or Church-porch. 1676 F. Vernon Let. 10 Jan. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1986) XII. 126 The Temple of Minerva is as entire as the Rotunda... I have taken all the dimensions within, with those of the pronos and Portico's. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Pronaos or Pronaus,..a Church-Porch, or a Portico to a Palace, great Hall, or spacious Building. 1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. iii. x. 169 The architrave..continued from the front of the portico or pronaos to the side pillars. 1798 C. Thompson Trav. through Turkey 131 Fifty-four feet of the hundred and ninety-two were taken up by the pronaos or anti-temple, which is now tumbled down. 1833 Penny Cycl. I. 140/2 Inner porticoes formed by the longitudinal extension of the flank walls,..forming what are distinguished as the pronaos and opisthodomus. 1875 W. W. Lloyd Age of Pericles I. xxi. 286 The frieze of the posticum is sculptured in high relief with the battle against the Centaurs;..the subject on the pronaos is more obscure. 1907 Man 7 180 A hypostyle hall which was the portico or pronaos to a cella ending in a small rock-cut chapel, where I suppose stood the statue of Mentuhetep. 1934 Hammond (Indiana) Times 31 Jan. 12/4 The columns of the pronaos in white marble with Corinthian capitals, were found intact. 1991 Progressive Archit. Feb. 50 (caption) The rebuilt Felice Theater, right, with Barabino's 19th-Century pronaos in the foreground. 2003 M. L. Lawall in M. B. Cosmopoulos Greek Myst. iv. 106 Mosaics appear in pronaoi of more mainstream Olympian cults. 2. figurative. A preamble; a preliminary. Cf. propylaeum n. 2. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > prologue or introduction forespeechc1000 prologuec1350 proemya1382 preamblec1395 proemc1410 exordyc1430 prolocutory1447 protocolc1450 forespeaking1480 preface1484 prooemiumc1485 preparation1526 introduction1529 induction1533 introducement1536 epistle?1548 prelude1548 proposition1553 foretalk1565 exordium1581 prolegomenons1600 inducement1605 isagoge1652 propylaeum1693 programma1711 foreword1842 foretalking1872 programme1880 pronaos1894 peritext1977 epitext1978 1894 T. H. Huxley Evol. & Ethics Pref. 8 If I had attempted to reply in full to the criticisms..I know not what extent of ground would have been covered by my pronaos. 1948 S. T. Williams in R. E. Spiller et al. Lit. Hist. U.S. II. lv. 916 Their verse (and Whitman's) formed the pronaos of modern poetry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1614 |
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