Word Meanings - PERIDROME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.

Related words: (words related to PERIDROME)

• CELLARIST
  See CELLARER
• TEMPLED
  Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple. I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills. S. F. Smith.
• ROMANY
  1. A gypsy.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• ROMANISH
  Pertaining to Romanism.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
  A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
• GREEKLING
  A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
• GREEKISH
  Peculiar to Greece.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• ROMANIST
  One who adheres to Romanism.
• ROMANCY
  Romantic.
• CELLAR
  A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
• ROMANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to Rome or its people. 2. Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal,
• ROMANIZER
  One who Romanizes.
• ROMANTICNESS
  The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness. Richardson.
• ROMANIZE
  1. To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms. Dryden. 2. To convert to the Roman Catholic religion.
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• OCELLATED
  1. Resembling an eye. 2. Marked with eyelike spots of color; as, the ocellated blenny. Ocellated turkey , the wild turkey of Central America
• ELEUTHEROMANIAC
  Mad for freedom.
• PSEUDONAVICELLA
  See PSEUDONAVICULA
• NECROMANCER
  One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
• HIEROMANCY
  Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• PYROMANCY
  Divination by means of fire.
• OCELLATE
  See OCELLATED
• NECROMANTIC; NECROMANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy. -- Nec`ro*man"tic*al*ly, adv.
• OCELLARY
  Of or pertaining to ocelli.