ers from the _Periptere_ in this, that the
Pillars of the _Peristyle_ are within, as it were round
about a Court, and those of the _Periptere_ are without, as
in the Temples of the Ancients.

_Pedestal_, is that part which supports the Pillar.

_Pied-droit_ is a square Pillar, which is in part within the
Wall.

_Pillaster_ is the same, with this Difference; that the
Pillaster has a _Base_ and a _Capital_, as a _Pillar_ hath,
which the _Pied-droit_ has not.

_Platt-band_ is a square Member, which terminates the
_Architrave_ of the _Dorick Order_, and passes immediately
under the Triglyphs.

_Plinthus_ signifies a Brick or square Tile. It's in
Architecture taken for that square Member which makes the
Foundation of the Base of the Pillar.

_Posticum_ is the back Gate of a Fabrick.

_Portico_ is a long place covered with a Floor or Flatfond,
supported by Pillars.

_Proscenium_, from [Greek: pro] and [Greek: skenine]
_tentorium_; it signifies the forepart of the Scene; it was
an Edifice as high as the last Portico of the Theatre, whose
Face or Front was adorned with many Ranges of Pillars.

_Prostyle_ from [Greek: pro] and [Greek: stylos], signifies
that which has Pillars before only. This was one sort of the
Temples of the Ancients.

_Pseudodiptere_, [Greek: pseudes] _mendax_, [Greek: dis]
_bis_, and [Greek: pteron] _ala_; signifies a _false
Diptere_. This was a kind of a Temple among the Ancients,
which had _Porticoes_ round about, which were every one as
large as the double _Portico_ of the _Diptere_.

_Pseudoperiptere_, from [Greek: pseudes] _mendax_, and
[Greek: peri], and [Greek: pteron] _ala_, was a sort of a
Temple, where the Side-Pillars were part in the Wall of the
inner side of the Temple, which was enlarged sufficiently to
enclose within the space which was allowed the Porticoes of
the Periptere.

_Pulpit_ was the place upon which the Comedians acted, which
we now call the Stage.

_Picnostyle_, from [Greek: pyknos] _dentus_, and [Greek:
stylos] _columna_; signifies a Building where the Pillars
were very close one to another; so that the
_Intercolumniation_ had but a _Diameter_ and a half of the
Pillar.

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_Rudus_ was a sort of gross Mortar, which was made use of
for smoothing, and equally filling and leve