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Arch.: A general term applied to the styles of architecture which prevailed from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Of these there are two divisions: (1) The debased Roman, prevalent from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, and including the Byzantine modifications of the Romans, and (2) the late or Gothic Romanesque of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, comprising the later Byzantine, the Lombard, and the Rhenish, Saxon, and Norman styles. The former is a pretty close imitation of the Roman, with modifications in the application and distribution of the peculiar features; the latter is Gothic in spirit, having a predominance of vertical lines, and various other new features. [RHENISHARCHITECTURE.] rō-măn-ic, a. [ROMAN.] 1. Pertaining to the Roman languages or dialects, or to the nations or races speaking them; romance. 2. Being in or derived from the Roman alphabet. Rō-man-ish, a. [Eng. Roman; -ish.] Pertain ing to Romanism; Roman, popish. Rō-man-ism, s. [Eng. Roman; -ism.] The tenets and teachings of the Church of Rome; Roman Catholicism. Rō-man-Ist, s. [Eng. Roman ; -ist.] An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic. ( Fox : Acts , p. 241.)