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BUILDING

Volume 1 · 68 words · 1771 Edition

a fabric erected by art, either for devotion, for magnificence, or for conveniency.

Regular Building, is that whose plan is square, the opposite sides equal, and the parts disposed with symmetry.

Irregular Building, that whose plan is not contained with equal or parallel lines, either by the accident of situation, or the design of the builder, and whose parts are not relative to one another in the elevation.