fastigium

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fastigium

1. The pediment of a portico, so-called in ancient architecture because it followed the form of the roof.

2. The crest or ridge of a roof.

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Fastigium, vertex, inter-ocular space, greyish-ochraceous with dark speckle.

Revision of Aresceutica (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Catantopinae) with comments on related genera

-- Fastigium of vertex narrow and conical Hexacentrus

Key to the Tribes and Genera of Tettigonioidea (Orthoptera) of Pakistan

Dark spot at middle of fastigium. Abdominal tergites IV-VI each with big median red spot.

A new tribe of Tropiduchidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) with revision of the genus Buca and description of asymmetric hind leg spinulation

Body medium sized, greenish with small reddish-brown dots; fastigium narrow, acute; antennae pale-yellow.

Systematic Study on the Various Tribes of Phaneropterinae (Tettigonioidea: Orthoptera) Occurring in Pakistan

Vertex rectangular, longer than wide (1.5:1) projecting beyond eyes about one-third of its length, basal compartment occupying approximately more than basal third, conspicuous submedian carinae forming narrow triangular area towards the fastigium (Fig.

Una nueva especie neotropical del genero Megamelus y nueva combinacion para Stenocranus maculipes (Hemiptera: Delphacidae)

Advierto asimismo sobre el uso de la forma relegatus en "O beatum pontificem ad fastigium tanti culminis subleuatum, cuius progressus in omnibus relegatus manu diuina creditur a deuoto!", donde parece tener la acepcion de "elegido, escogido".

La Vita beati Braulii episcopi et confessoris (BHL 1448n) transmitida por El Escoriai, Biblioteca del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo, P.III.5 (s. XV): editio princeps y estudio

Y anade el padre De Lubac: <<El jesuita Alexandre Fichet retomara en 1644 un proyecto analogo de ciencia universal refiriendose tambien el a nuestro Pico: en su curiosa obra, Arcana studiorum omnium Methodus et Biblioteca scientiarum librorumque earum ordine tributorum universales, dira expresamente que desea servirse de aquel metodo cabalistico qua Picus Mirandula usus sit et ad fastigium scientiarum pervenerit>>.

Jean-Robert Armogathe, Pascal Montaubin, Michel-Yves Perrin (dirs.), Histoire generale du christianisme, deux volumes sous coffret

Una est afflictis consolatio, unum refrigerium, quot scilicet vicibus nova instant vulnera totidem ad Regium Celsitudinis Vestrae Fastigium, a quo, ceu a perenni fonte emanant Iustitiae pharmaca, reverenter provocare.

Boturini o las desventuras de un devoto guadalupano (seis cartas desde la carcel)

(2) For Archbishop Antonino, Florence was "the single summit of eloquence" ("eloquentia singulare fastigium"); the orator of the d'Este court, Ludovico Carbone, concurred: "if God came down to earth, He would certainly speak no other language than the elegant idiom of the Florentines ...

Preaching magnificence in Renaissance Florence

El meduloblastoma es un tumor maligno del SNC cuyo origen es discutido, pero se admite que es en las celulas neuroepiteliales germinales del techo del cuarto ventriculo (fastigium) es donde se produciria.

Meduloblastoma, caracterizacion de los ultimos 10 anos en hospital Guillermo Grant Benavente, Concepcion

Beata igitur Virgo non in censuro venit, tametsi enim in Del Matrem electa, ad hoc tamen fastigium evecta non fuit, ut posset panem in corpus, vinum in sanguinem Christi conservare: 224, n.

Maria y la eucaristia en Cristobal de Vega

Malaysian artist Wong Hoy Cheong's Fastigium, 2005, used bamboo and netting to add a full-scale minaret to the museum's roof, evoking Guangzhou's overlooked history as a trading port for Muslim Arab merchants during the eighth century and turning discussions about globalization within the PRD toward something tangible.