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APOPHYGE (Gr. aaoda yit, a flying off)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APOPHYGE (Gr. aaoda yit, a flying off)  , in
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architecture, the lowest
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part of the
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shaft of an Ionic or Corinthian
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column, or the highest member of its
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base if the column be considered as a whole . The
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apophyge is the inverted
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cavetto or
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concave sweep, on the upper edge of which the diminishing shaft rests .

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