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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

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pl.

Antæ

[L.]

(Arch.)

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

☞ Porches, when columns stand between two antæ, are called in Latin in antis.

Noun.

In ancient architecture, a square column, at the corner of a building; a pilaster; written also ante.

See also: anta, ANTA, äntä, -anta, anta-, and -anță

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