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Webster 1913 Edition


Hagioscope

Ha′gi-o-scopeˊ

(hā′jĭ-ō̍-skōpˊ)
,
Noun.
[Gr.
ἄγιοσ
sacred +
-scope
.]
An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; – called, in architecture, a squint.
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