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Meaning of SUPERCOLUMNIATION

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Su`per*co*lum`ni*a"tion\, n. (Arch.)
The putting of one order above another; also, an
architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting
of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and
Corinthian or Composite above this.
 

 

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