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Meanings of Ionic in English

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The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia.

        sótão
        Usage of Ionic in English
        1
        The Ionic column is characterized by the spiral volutes of the capital.
        General History for Colleges and High Schools
        2
        This tender motion of the physignomy the ancients called the Ionic laugh.
        History of English Humour, Vol. 2
        3
        ANAXIMANDER, the successor of Thales in the Ionic school, lived from B.C.
        A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
        4
        Its chemical products include Ionic membrane caustic soda, chloralkali salt and others.
        Reuters
        5
        The Ionic allows you to customise your workout, and also change wristbands.
        The Irish Times
        6
        They stood beneath the broad Ionic portico, beholding the strange scene around.
        Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
        7
        If that's meant for an Ionic capital, no assessor would stand it.
        The Roll-Call
        8
        There are two principal orders in Greek architecture, the Doric and the Ionic.
        A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
        9
        The chamber was spacious, and rudely painted in the Ionic style.
        Tancred; Or, The New Crusade
        10
        The new Hyundai Ionic or recently updated VW e-Golf are also worth considering.
        The Guardian
        11
        The Ionic order was of a much more luxuriant character than the Doric.
        A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
        12
        Between the double rows of massive Ionic columns runs the colonnade.
        The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition / A P...
        13
        In Greece, the Ionic philosophers held that such phenomena are obedient to law.
        History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
        14
        The latest, Fitbit Ionic, is a smartwatch but with a definite fitness focus.
        The Irish Times
        15
        The Ionians, however, originated the order which is therefore named Ionic.
        The Ten Books on Architecture
        16
        Talk of the Ionic and Eleatic schools-ofArchytas, Gorgias, and Alcmaeon.
        The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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        sótãojónico
        Ionic through the time
        Ionic across language varieties
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