TERMINAL FIGURES

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TERMINAL FIGURES , also called " termini " or " terms," in

architecture

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a
master
- MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)
-builder)

, figures of which the upner parts only, or perhaps the

head

and shoulders alone, are carved, the

rest

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta,
league
- LEAGUE
, i.e. resting or stopping place)

running

RUNNING

intoa parallelopiped, and sometimes into a diminishing

pedestal

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo,
foot
- FOOT
of a
stall
- STALL (0. Eng. steall, stael, cf. Du. stal, Ger. and Swed. Stall, a common Teutonic word for a place, station, place for standing in; the root is the Indo-European std–, to stand, seen also in Latin stabulum, Greek vraO bs, and in stallion, an entire hors
)

, with feet indicated below, or even without them (see HERSIAE).

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