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DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. See also:Lat. fores or valvae; the See also:English word, with other forms See also:common in allied See also:languages, comes from the same Indo-See also:European See also:stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)  , in See also:architecture, the slab, flap or See also:leaf forming the enclosure of a See also:doorway (q.v.), either in See also:wood, See also:metal or See also:stone . The earliest records are those represented in the paintings of the See also:Egyptian tombs, in which they are shown as single or See also:double doors, each in a single piece of wood . In See also:Egypt, where the See also:climate is intensely dry, there would be no fear of their warping, but in other countries it would be necessary to See also:frame them, which according to See also:Vitruvius (iv . 6.) was done with See also:stiles (scapi) and rails (impages) : the spaces enclosed being filled with panels (tympana) let into grooves made in the stiles and rails . The stiles were the See also:vertical boards, one of which, tenoned or hinged, is known as the See also:hanging See also:stile, the other as the See also:middle or See also:meeting stile . The See also:horizontal See also:cross pieces are the See also:top See also:rail, bottom rail, and middle or intermediate rails . The most See also:ancient doors were in See also:timber, those made for See also:King See also:Solomon's See also:temple being in See also:olive wood (1 See also:Kings vi . 31-35), which were carved and overlaid with See also:gold . The doors dwelt upon in See also:Homer would appear to have been cased in See also:silver or See also:brass . Besides olive wood, See also:elm, See also:cedar, See also:oak and See also:cyprus were used . All ancient doors were hung by pivots at the top and bottom of the hanging stile which worked in sockets in the See also:lintel and cill, the latter being always in some hard stone such as See also:basalt or See also:granite . Those found at See also:Nippur by Dr Hilprecht, dating from 2000 B.c.. were in dolorite .

The tenons of 419 brilliancy to the not uncommon passages of See also:

noble perspicacity . To the See also:odd terminology of See also:Donne's poetic See also:philosophy See also:Dryden gave the name of " See also:metaphysics," and See also:Johnson, borrowing the See also:suggestion, invented the See also:title of the " metaphysical school " to describe, not Donne only, but all the amorous and philosophical poets who succeeded him, and who employed a similarly fantastic See also:language, and who affected odd figurative inversions . Izaak See also:Walton's See also:Life, first published in 164o, and entirely recast in 1659, has been constantly reprinted . The best edition of Donne's Poems was edited by E . K . See also:Chambers in 1896 . His See also:prose See also:works have not been collected . In 1899 See also:Edmund See also:Gosse published in two volumes The Life and Letters of See also:John Donne, for the first See also:time revised and collected . (E .

End of Article: DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)
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