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Architectonical   Listen
adjective
Architectonical, Architectonic  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." "These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged."
2.
Relating to the systemizing of knowledge.





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"Architectonical" Quotes from Famous Books



... the case with much Renaissance art, his life was worth more for its decorative detail than for its constructive design. In richness, versatility, variety, and exquisiteness of execution, it left little to be desired; yet, viewed at a distance, and as a whole, it does not inspire us with a sense of architectonic majesty. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds
... it appears, that the architectonic functions ascribed by Wolf to Peisistratus and his associates, in reference to the Homeric poems, are nowise admissible. But much would undoubtedly be gained towards that view of the question, if it could be shown, that, in order to controvert it, we were driven to the necessity of ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer


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