Acropolitan

See also: acropolitan

English edit

Etymology edit

Alternative letter-case form of acropolitan

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăk'rəpŏʹlĭtən, IPA^(key): /ˌækɹəˈpɒlɪtən/

Adjective edit

Acropolitan (not comparable)

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of the Athenian Acropolis; compare acropolitan.
- 1854: Robert Stuart, Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical, pages 60^{1} and 63–64^{2} (A. S. Barnes & Co., 51 John-Street)
  ^{1} Who first surrounded the Acropolitan platform with a wall, is unknown, but it is probable that the work of Pelasgi may be traced in part of the boundary wall, from a division of it having received that name by tradition.
  
  ^{2} The walls of Tiryns and Mycenæ, are the finest remains of Acropolitan building in Greece, but they are inferior in magnitude to erections, (called Cyclopean), of Norba, in Latium; and several other Pelasgic fortresses of Cora, Signia, and Alatrium, in Italy, (the walls of which resemble those of Tiryns, Argos, and Mycenæ,) whose wonderful ruins exhibit walls of equal strength and solidity with those of Argolis.
- 1900: Cyrenus Osborne Ward, The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine, volume 2, page 336 (C. H. Kerr & company co-operative)
  […] a ferocious gang of Athenian officers, skyward, headed perhaps, by the triumphant Demosthenes, to the Acropolitan cliff, and to see her palsying form slugged down the abyss. The mangled head and trunk, and limbs, dumb in life’s last quivering gasp are the horrid subject of the epitaph.
- 1931: International museums office, Proceedings of the Athens committe on the anastylosis of the Acropolitan monuments, main title
  Proceedings of the Athens committe on the anastylosis of the Acropolitan monuments
- 2006: Ethnologia Balkanica, volume 10, page 199 (Prof. M. Drinov Academic Pub. House)
  The younger and wealthier members of the White Acropolis felt the need for some new Acropolitan associations to be created to deal with explicitly political issues concerning the Acropolis region.