orthostate

English

Noun

orthostate (plural orthostates)

1. Alternative form of orthostat
   • 1980, William Bell Dinsmoor, William B. Dinsmoor, The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: The classical building, ASCSA, →ISBN, page 144:

     ... the sill course. In the orthostate course of each is a single vertical Greek dowel cutting, the top edges measuring 0.489-0.52 m above the sill […]

   • 1992, Frederick A. Cooper, The Temple of Apollo Bassitas: The architecture, ASCSA, →ISBN, page 195:

     […] the anta block but begins with the first full orthostate (Fig. 18:a). […] The same sort of truncating of a full orthostate occurs at the reveals of the east entranceway. […] A smashed east-jamb orthostate puts this detail beyond recognition, but the west-jamb orthostate retains the whole surface with the cyma reversa intact at either end.

French

Noun

orthostate m (plural orthostates)

1. orthostat