domical

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"Out there on the desert�just the dunes, me and my feet," mused Telly Savalas, domical Big Daddy of TV's Kojak series.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Interior.—The natural division, in height, of an early church, whether basilican or domical, was into three stories—the ground level, the gallery level, and the clearstory or vault level.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

With the fall of Rome and the rise of Constantinople these forms underwent in the East another transformation, called the Byzantine, in the development of Christian domical church architecture.

From A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)

The nave is thus covered completely by a domical canopy, which, in its ascent, swells larger and larger, mounts higher and higher, as though a miniature heaven rose overhead.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" by Various

A careful survey of the building shows clearly that the domical character of the chapel is not original, and that the structure when first erected was a simple hall covered with a wooden roof.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander