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[ Lat.egre io, from egre us, pa. par. of egredior.] 1. The act of going out; departure, egre . "In the times of the patriarchs and the egre ion of ser. 3. with its vast aisled halls without windows, its close files of gigantic columns, and its colo al IMG:content-0795.jpg:[graphic][merged small] Temple of A poll i no polis Magna (modern name, Edoon). statues, owes many characteristic forms and effects to earlier cavern temples in Ethiopia. One of the most striking peculiarities of the style is the pyramidal character of the ascending lines; it is observed in the outline of the portal and thes gigantic pylon, in walls, doorways, pedes tals, and screens: it pervades the whole system, and must have been occasioned by circumstances connected with its origin. Egyptian architecture had its origin 2,222 years before Christ, and advanced and flourished under different dynasties. The first includes the two great dynasties of Theban princes who governed Egypt during her "most high and palmy state," when Thebes sent forth her armies to distant conquest. In the second period is comprised the erection of the Pyramids. The third includes the reigns of the Ptolemies and earlier Cæsars, under whom Egyptian architecture flourished in a second youth, and almost attained its original splendor. The e entially brilliant period of Egyptian art was in the middle of the twelfth century B. C., in the reign of Sesostris or Rameses, at Thebes. The monuments of this period comprise the remains of Homer's hundred-gated Thebes, the capital of ancient Egypt, the diameter of which city was two geographical miles each way; IMG:content-0796.png:[blocks in formation] *ěg-ri-mon-ỹ (1), s . [Lat. ægrimonia ; from æger =sick.] Sickne of the mind, sadne , sorrow. *ěg'-ri-môn-ў (2), s . [AGRIMONY.] ěg'-ri-õt, s. [Fr. aigre =sour.] Hortic.: A sour kind of cherry.