domical

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"Out there on the desert�just the dunes, me and my feet," mused Telly Savalas, domical Big Daddy of TV's Kojak series.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the fall of Rome and the rise of Constantinople these forms underwent in the East another transformation, called the Byzantine, in the development of Christian domical church architecture.

From A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)

A careful survey of the building shows clearly that the domical character of the chapel is not original, and that the structure when first erected was a simple hall covered with a wooden roof.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

The climax of a domical church is obviously the dome.

From The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur)

The conclusion that in the present building we have 103parts representing different periods solves also the problem of the elliptical domical vault.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander