Definition of attic

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Attic (a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:.

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Latticing :: Latticing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lattic.
Tabernacular :: Tabernacular (a.) Formed in latticework; latticed.
Amphidromical :: Amphidromical (a.) Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.
Grille :: Grille (v. t.) A lattice or grating.
Attic :: Attic (a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined..
Atticism :: Atticism (n.) A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians..
Cancellate :: Cancellate (v. t.) Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plants; latticelike..
Attical :: Attical (a.) Attic.
Cancel :: Cancel (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude..
Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window..
Mina :: Mina (n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas..
Arbor :: Arbor (n.) A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower..
Latticework :: Latticework (n.) Same as Lattice, n., 1..
Procrustes :: Procrustes (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes..
Atticize :: Atticize (v. t.) To conform or make conformable to the language, customs, etc., of Attica..
Deme :: Deme (n.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township..
Lattice :: Lattice (v. i.) To make a lattice of; as, to lattice timbers..
Salt :: Salt (n.) Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt..
Atticize :: Atticize (v. i.) To use the Attic idiom or style; to conform to the customs or modes of thought of the Athenians.
Hellenic :: Hellenic (n.) The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander..
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