(a.) Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.
(a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the
three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by
the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing
feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.
(n.) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two
short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called
the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and
a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.
(n.) A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.
(n.) The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.
(n.) Ionic type.
