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Webster 1913 Edition

Supercolumniation

Suˊper-co-lumˊni-a′tion

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Noun.

(Arch.)

The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method;

as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this

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