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hypæthral, -ethral, a.|hɪp-, haɪˈpiːθrəl|
[f. L. hypæthr-us, hypæthr-os, adj. and n., ad. Gr. ὕπαιθρος under the sky, in the open air (f. ὑπό hypo- 1 + αἰθήρ air, ether) + -al1.]
1. Open to the sky; having no roof.
In its application to buildings adopted from Vitruvius, who used it to designate a supposed type of Greek temple, in which the cella was left wholly or partly uncovered.
[1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 9 All the space surrounded by the inner columns was open, whence the Prospect of such Temples was Hypethros, that is, uncover'd.] 1794Rudim. Anc. Archit. (ed. 2) 107 The internal colonnade to the hypaethral temple is a peristyle. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 377/2 The Patio is an hypethral quadrilateral oblong of some 120 ft. by 60. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. I. i. 1 The old Elizabethan house, built as an hypaethral quadrangle with cloisters, stands on a hill looking southward. a1876― Pen Sketches (1879) I. 26 The builders of Stonehenge..sought to make their hypaethral temple sublime in its vastness.
2. Open-air. Also as n. (nonce-use): One who lives in the open air.
1875Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 135 Being much of an hypaethral, I augured ill from it. 1879Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 246 The Greek and Istrian marbles used at Venice are absolutely defiant of hypæthral influences. 1887Lowell Democr. 184 What a hypaethral story it is, how much of it passes in the open air! |
