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Ionic   /aɪˈɑnɪk/   Listen
adjective
Ionic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
2.
(Arch.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes.
Ionic dialect (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language, used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is designated old Ionic, as distinguished from new Ionic, or Attic, the dialect of all cultivated Greeks in the period of Athenian prosperity and glory.
Ionic foot. (Pros.) See Ionic, n., 1.
Ionic mode, or Ionian mode, (Mus.), an ancient mode, supposed to correspond with the modern major scale of C.
Ionic sect, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the original principle of all things.
Ionic type, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line). Note: This is Nonpareil Ionic.


ionic  adj.  (Chem.) Of or pertaining to ions; composed of ions, containing ions, or breaking down into ions when dissolved in a polar solvent; as, an ionic solution will conduct a current of electricity. Opposite of nonionic.


noun
Ionic  n.  
1.
(Pros.)
(a)
A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
(b)
A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
2.
The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
3.
(Print.) Ionic type.





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"Ionic" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a gallery on each side supported by thin columns having gilt Ionic capitals. Three round-headed windows are at the further end, above the Speaker's chair, which is backed by a huge pedimented structure in white and gilt, surmounted by the lion and the unicorn. The windows are uncurtained, one being ...
— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy
... Athens, looking at the buttressed Acropolis and the ruined temples,—the Doric Parthenon, the Ionic Erechtheum, the Corinthian temple of Jupiter, and the beautiful Caryatides. But see those steps cut in the natural rock. Up those steps walked the Apostle Paul, and from that summit, Mars Hill, the Areopagus, he began his noble address, "Ye men ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various
... Ionic porticos and graceful Corinthian columns of dazzling white limestone rose hundreds of feet above the fountains and magnolia-shaded terraces that crowned the hill—still more hundreds of feet above the densely packed roofs ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy
... He crouches beneath the Ionic portico, his figure hardly discernible. A bolt—the last bolt is withdrawn. A form is dimly seen within—retiring, ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... west, was not to be coerced into furnishing a sequel to the destruction of Corinth. Massilia—the most remote from the mother-country of all those cities, once so numerous, free, and powerful, that belonged to the old Ionic mariner-nation, and almost the last in which the Hellenic seafaring life had preserved itself fresh and pure, as in fact it was the last Greek city that fought at sea—Massilia had to surrender its magazines ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen


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