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TERMINAL FIGURES

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, figures of which the upner parts only, or perhaps the See also:

head and shoulders alone, are carved, the See also:

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

rest See also:

RUNNING

running intoa parallelopiped, and sometimes into a diminishing See also:

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

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

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