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Apsidal adj.

(Astron.) Of or pertaining to the apsides of an orbit.

(Arch.) Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apsidal" Quotes from Famous Books

... they poured down molten pitch on those who assailed the gateway of the cathedral. For this purpose there is an open space between the screen and the facade. The apse of eight sides, internally is fine; and there is a beautiful octagonal apsidal chapel on the north ...

— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould

... statue made for the facade by Donatello is now placed in a dark apsidal chapel, where the light is so bad that the figure is often invisible. This is the statue of St. John the Evangelist, and is much earlier than Poggio, having been ordered on December 12, 1408. Two evangelists were to be placed on either side of the central ...

— Donatello • David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

... An excellent Norman turret of four stages runs up at the north-east angle, and is richly decorated, the third story being ornamented with a lattice-work of stone in high relief. East of the transept was once an apsidal chapel, similar to that still remaining in the south arm of the transept, but about the end of the thirteenth century this was destroyed and two chapels were built in its place. These contain beautiful examples ...

— Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch • Sidney Heath

... a curious Romanesque church, one of the best preserved in Brittany, which dates from the Templars of the twelfth century. It has a nave with aisles going all round the choir, and three round apsidal chapels at the end. The five arches on each side of the nave are horse-shoe shaped, and the choir is surrounded by the same number of high narrow arches, resting on columns with grotesque capitals of complicated design. ...

— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser