called the
_Horns_, the intermediate _Sweep_ and _Curvature_; the
Arch, which has commonly a _Rose_ carved in the middle.

_Acroteria_ or _Acroter's_ from [Greek: akron], _Summa
pars_; they may be properly called _Pinnacles_, for
_Pins_ and _Battlements_ were made sometimes more
towring; but when they stood in _Ranges_ with _Rails_ and
_Balisters_: Upon flat Building they still retained their
Name, with this only difference, that such as were placed
between the _Angular_ Points, were stiled the _Median_,
or middle _Acroteria_.

_Annulets_, are little square Parts turned round in the
_Corinthian Capital_, under the _Quarter-Round_, called
_Echinus_.

_Ante_, is a square Pillaster, which the Ancients placed at
the corners of the Walls of the Temples.

_Amphiprostyle_ from [Greek: amphi], _Circa_, and [Greek:
stylos]; _Columna_ was a sort of a Temple which had four
Columns in the Front of the Temple, and four in the Face
behind.

_Architrave_, from a Mungril Compound of two Languages,
[Greek: arche] _Principalis_, and _Trabs_; it's the first
Member of that which we call _Entablature_; in Chimnies
the _Architrave_ is the _mantle_; over the _Jambs_ of the
Doors and Lintels of Windows, it's called the
_Hyperthron_, from the Greek [Greek: hyper], _super_ and
[Greek: thyra], _Janua_ or _Ostium_.

_Astragal_, from the Greek word [Greek: astragalos] which
signifies the _Vertebrae_, or little Joints in the Neck or
Heel; hence the French call it _Talon_, or the Heel
itself: It's a Member of _Architecture_ joyned to
_Bases_, _Cornices_, _Architraves_, _&c._ it's round like
a Ring, and therefore it's called by the Italians
_Tondino_.

_Attiq;_ signifies after the manner of the City of _Athens_.
In _Vitruvius_ it's the Name of the _Basis_ which the
Moderns have given to the _Dorick_ Pillar. We call
_Attiq;_ in our Buildings, a little Order placed upon
another much greater; for instead of Pillars, this little
Order has commonly nothing but Pillasters of a particular
Fashion and Order, which we call _Attiq;_

_Apophyges_, vide _Conge_.

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_Basilica_, from the Greek word [Greek: Basileus] _Rex_ or
King among the Ancients. It was a great Hall which had
two Ranges of Pillars, and had two Isles or Wings, upon
which were G