Acroteria or Acroter’s from ἀκρόν, 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 αμφὶ, Circa, and στύλος; 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, αρχη 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 ὑπὲρ, super and θὑρα, Janua or Ostium.
Astragal, from the Greek word αστράγαλος which signifies the Vertebræ, 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 Congé.
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