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Webster 1913 Edition
Ionic
I-on′ic
,Adj.
[L.
Ionicus
, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] Ionia.] 1.
Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
2.
(Arch.)
Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of
Capital
. Ionic dialect
(Gr. Gram.)
, a dialect of the Greek language, used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period of Athenian prosperity and glory.
– Ionic foot
. (Pros.)
See , 1.
– Ionic
, Noun.
Ionic mode
, or Ionian mode
, (Mus.)
, an ancient mode, supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.
– Ionic sect
, a sect of philosophers founded by
– Thales of Miletus
, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the original principle of all things. Ionic type
, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line).
I-on′ic
,Noun.
1.
(Pros.)
(a)
A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, – that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the
greater Ionic
; or two short and two long, – that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic
. (b)
A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
2.
The Ionic dialect;
as, the Homeric
. Ionic
3.
(Print.)
Ionic type.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ionic
ION'IC
,Adj.
1.
The Ionic dialect of the Greek language, is the dialect used in Ionia.2.
The Ionic sect of philosophers, was that founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the principle of all natural things.3.
Denoting an airy kind of music. The Ionic or Ionian mode was, reckoning from grave to acute, the second of the five middle modes.