STILTED  , a See also:

• TERM

term in See also:

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

architecture, given to anything raised above its usual level; it is usually applied to the See also:

• ARCH
• ARCH, JOSEPH (1826– )

arch, which is said to be stilted when its centre is raised above the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital or See also:

• IMPOST (through the O. Fr. from Lat. impositum, a thing laid upon another; the modern French is impot)

impost . In See also:

• BYZANTINE

Byzantine architecture this was frequently done in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to give more importance to the twin See also:

• ARCHES, COURT OF

arches of the windows, and less to the See also:

• SHAFT
• SHAFT (O. Eng., sceaft, from scafan, to shave; the word is common to Teutonic languages)

shaft which divided them . In Romanesque and See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

• WORK

work the stilted arch was often employed in the semi-circular apses, where in consequence of the closer juxtaposition of the columns See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• APSE
• APSE (Gr. alkir, a fastening, especially the felloe of a wheel; Lat. absis)

apse the arches were much narrower than those of the See also:

• CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

choir; in order, however, that the See also:

• APEX

apex of all the arches should be of the same height, the apse arches were stilted .