upaithric

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upaithric (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of hupaithric (“roofless, open to the sky”)
    • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 287:
      that spacious cell
      Like an upaithric temple wide and high,
      Whose aëry dome is inaccessible,
      Was pierced with one round cleft through which the sunbeams fell.
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