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STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to...

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 759 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STAGE (Fr. 6/See also:age; from See also:Lat. stare, to stand)  , in See also:architecture, an elevated See also:floor, particularly the various storeys of a See also:bell-See also:tower, &c . The See also:term is also applied to the See also:plain parts of buttresses between cap and cap where they set back, or where they are divided by See also:horizontal strings and panelling . It is used, too, by See also:William of See also:Worcester to describe the compartments of windows between See also:transom and transom, in contradistinction to the word See also:bay, which signifies a See also:division between See also:mullion and mullion (see See also:STOREY) . From the sense of the floor or See also:platform on which plays were acted the term came to signify both the See also:theatre (q.v.) and the See also:drama (q.v.) . And from its etymological meaning of a station comes the sense of a See also:place for See also:rest on a See also:journey, the distance between such places, &c .

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