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Domical   Listen
adjective
Domical  adj.  Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Domical" Quotes from Famous Books



... Corinthian columns, with a small dome over the intersection. The interior is very beautiful, and this church is generally considered to be Wren's masterpiece. S. Mary Abchurch, is nearly square in plan, has no columns and is covered with a domical ceiling, but so skilfully treated that ...
— Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them • Sidney Heath

... schola, was arched from pier to pier longitudinally and transversely, the quadrangular spaces being in all probability simply groined; but a fragment of box tiles found almost leads one to think that these spaces were vaulted by a domical vault, springing either from pendentives in the angles of the vaults, more common in later work, or from a slight cornice on a level with the apex of the arches. The vault, if there was one, over the semi-circular exedrae must have been hemispherical. From the ...
— The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath • Charles E. Davis



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