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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)

APOPHYGE (Gr. aaoda yit, a flying off) , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the lowest See also:

PART

part of the See also:

shaft of an Ionic or Corinthian See also:

COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column, or the highest member of its See also:

BASE

base if the column be considered as a whole . The See also:

APOPHYGE (Gr. aaoda yit, a flying off)

apophyge is the inverted See also:

CAVETTO (Ital. diminutive of cave, hollow)

cavetto or See also:

CONCAVE

concave sweep, on the upper edge of which the diminishing shaft rests .

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