upaithric

English

Adjective

upaithric (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of hupaithric (“roofless, open to the sky”)
   • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 287:

     that spacious cell
     Like an upaithric temple wide and high,
     Whose aëry dome is inaccessible,
     Was pierced with one round cleft through which the sunbeams fell.