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CORINTHIAN

Volume 6 · 55 words · 1810 Edition

in general, denotes something belonging to Corinth: thus we say, Corinthian brafs, Corinthian order, &c.

CORINTHIAN Brafs. See Brass and Corinth.

CORINTHIAN Order, in Architecture, the fourth order of architecture, according to Scamozzi; but M. Le Clerc makes it the fifth, being the most noble and delicate of all the five. See Architecture, No. 47.