Domical [adjective]

Definition of Domical:

ball-shaped; semicircular area

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Sentence/Example of Domical:

The vaults are all slightly domical in section; the diagonal ribs generally semi-circular, as also are the wall-ribs.

In both cases the vaulting is very domical, and the joints of the stone filling-in of the cells are vertical.

The vault sections of the side aisles, however, remained domical, as originally built.

The French term bomb is more exact than such expressions as domical and domed.

Three huge so-called domical vaults, truly Gothic in construction, span the sixty-foot unaisled nave of St. Maurice.

The latter was a basilica; 515 while the church alluded to in the biography of S. Theodore was a domical building.

The vaulting of the nave is extremely domical in its section.

Most interesting works of this tradition are the domes or rather domical roofs of St. Marks at Venice.

The cover is slightly domical; upon it are two lambs, and between them a gemmed cross.

It is decorated with many niches and figures, and a fine cresting round the domical top.