Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Saracens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Saracens.
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Examples
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-- to the graceful building, which in its perfect proportion transcended the rude forms of nature, the fretted gothic and massy saracenic pile, to the stupendous arch and glorious dome, the fluted column with its capital, Corinthian, Ionic, or Doric, the peristyle and fair entablature, whose harmony of form is to the eye as musical concord to the ear!
III.1 1826
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-- to the graceful building, which in its perfect proportion transcended the rude forms of nature, the fretted gothic and massy saracenic pile, to the stupendous arch and glorious dome, the fluted column with its capital, Corinthian, Ionic, or Doric, the peristyle and fair entablature, whose harmony of form is to the eye as musical concord to the ear!
The Last Man 1826
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-- to the graceful building, which in its perfect proportion transcended the rude forms of nature, the fretted gothic and massy saracenic pile, to the stupendous arch and glorious dome, the fluted column with its capital,
The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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