See also:

• PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, Late Lat. pilare, from pila, column)

PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. pilare, from pila, See also:

• COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column)  , an isolated upright structure, of narrow width in relation to its height, which is either employed as a support for a superincumbent load of some sort or is set up for commemorative or ornamental purposes . In the first sense the word has many See also:

• COMMON

common applications, as to columns supporting the girders of awarehouse See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor or the deckbeams of a See also:

• SHIP

ship, to the single central support or See also:

• PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

pedestal of a table, See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine-See also:

• TOOL (0. Eng. tdl, generally referred to a root seen in the Goth. taujan, to make, or in the English word " taw," to work or dress leather)

tool, &c., and to the masses of See also:

• COAL

coal which the miner leaves in certain methods of working as supports to the roof (see See also:

• CORD (derived through the Fr. corde, from the Lat. chorda, Gr. xop(5rt, the string of a musical instrument)

Cord); it is also used figuratively of persons in such phrases as a " See also:

• PILLAR (0. Fr. piler, Mod. pilier, Late Lat. pilare, from pila, column)

pillar of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state." In See also:

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

architecture it has strictly the second sense . The See also:

• COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column erected in See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

• DIOCLETIAN (GAIUs AURELIUS VALERIUS DIOCLETIANUS) (A.D. 245–313)
• DIOCLETIAN, EDICT OF (De Pretiis rerum venalium)

Diocletian at See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria is known as See also:

• POMPEY

Pompey's pillar, and the so-called columns of See also:

• TRAJAN [MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS] (A. D. 53-117)

Trajan and See also:

• ANTONINUS, SAINT ANTONIO PIEROZZI

Antoninus are in reality pillars, performing no structural See also:

• FUNCTION

function beyond that of carrying a statue . In See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India the only example is the See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron pillar at See also:

• DELHI, DEHLI

Delhi, which is an extraordinary specimen of the iron-worker's See also:

• ART

art considering the remote date at which it was made . Up to the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the See also:

• TERM

term " pillar " was employed to designate the masses of See also:

• MASONRY

masonry in a See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, which carry the arcades, but now the term "See also:

• PIER (older forms per or Pere, from Med. Lat. pera; the word for piers out of water. For river piers, where a firm, watertight is of obscure origin, and the connexion with Fr. Pierre, Lat. stratum is found at a moderate depth below the river-bed, the pctr

pier" is invariably adopted in preference .