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projecture Now rare.|prəʊˈdʒɛktjʊə(r)|
[= F. projecture (1629 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. prōjectūra a jutty, a projecture in buildings, f. prōject-: see project v. and -ure.]
1. The fact or state of projecting or jutting out beyond the general line or surface; concr. a projection or prominence; in Arch., a projecting architectural member or moulding. Now rare.
1563Shute Archit. B iv b, Then shall your vttermost compas be for the proiecture, or saylling out or hanging ouer of the foote of the pillor, which Proiecture the Grekes do name or cal it Ecphoron. Ibid. C j b, It hath vpon Echinus a littel edge, which seteth forth Plinthus wt a more beautiful Proiecture. 1666Evelyn Mem. 7 Sept., All the ornaments, columnes, freezes, capitals, and projectures of massie Portland stone. 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 28 Aug. an. 1776, The ends of the roof should have a gentle projecture. 1803C. B. Brown E. Huntly II. 49 There was no projecture which might be firmly held by the hand. 1842–76Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Ecphora,..the projecture of a member or moulding of a column.
†2. A projection on the flat; a plotting out, delineation. Obs.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. xii. 44 Ground⁓plots are proiectures, eleuations, and all fundamentall contriuances, destinated and accomodated to some speciall and proposed ende. Ibid. ii. i. 48.
†3. = projection 6. Obs.
1616Hales in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 3 Amongst all the solutions..none there was which gave me not full and sufficient satisfaction, one only excepted,..that is concerning the projecture of an oblique circle.
†4. = project n. 5. Obs.
1696Evelyn Let. to Ld. Godolphin 16 June, New inventions..encouraged, or rejected without reproach as projectures, or turning the unsuccessful proposer to ridicule. |
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