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Ionic   /aɪˈɑnɪk/   Listen
Ionic

adjective
1.
Containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions.  "Ionic crystals" , "Ionic hydrogen"
2.
Of or pertaining to the Ionic order of classical Greek architecture.
3.
Of or relating to Ionia or its inhabitants or its language.
noun
1.
The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia.  Synonyms: Attic, Classical Greek, Ionic dialect.



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"Ionic" Quotes from Famous Books



... I visit, used as the small dining room of the Royal Family. Unfortunately, this is just undergoing partial restoration, so no proper picture or description can be obtained. I observe a painted ceiling, some marble columns of the Ionic order, blue and gold furniture and hangings; and then some costly and ...
— The Strand Magazine: Volume VII, Issue 37. January, 1894. - An Illustrated Monthly • Edited by George Newnes
... the present grand cathedral, at each side of which rises a massive tower crowned by a bell-shaped dome, is divided by buttresses into three parts, and though there is some confusion of orders, Doric and Ionic prevailing, still as a whole the front is majestic and imposing. The towers are each over two hundred feet in height, and are also of mingled orders. In the western tower is the great bell, nineteen feet high, named Santa Maria de Guadalupe. We know ...
— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou
... answer Joubert could have given. It was a mistake to ask the favour at all. But the General advised the town to accept the proposal. At a strange and unorganised public meeting on the steps of the Ionic Public Hall, now a hospital, the people indignantly rejected the terms. Leave our women and children at Intombi's Spruit—the bushy spot fixed upon, five miles away—with Boers creeping round them, perhaps using them as a screen for attack! Britons never, ...
— Ladysmith - The Diary of a Siege • H. W. Nevinson
... fruit; but epic poets, from Homer downward, have been generally in the habit of not neglecting the foliage. Spenser in particular has that impartial copiousness which we think it our duty to admire in the Ionic epos, but which, if truth were told, has prevented generations of Englishmen from acquiring an intimate personal acquaintance with the 'Fairy Queen.' With Chaucer the danger certainly rather lay in the ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... so dangerous in there that we need a Thor gun?" Susan Sidwell said. Susan had majored in ionic chemistry and ...
— Be It Ever Thus • Robert Moore Williams


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