Definition of "amphiprostyle" [am•phip•ro•style]

• Having a prostyle or set of columns at each end but none along the sides, as in some Greek temples. (adjective)

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• "First there is the temple in antis, or [Greek: naos en parastasin] as it is called in Greek; then the prostyle, amphiprostyle, peripteral, pseudodipteral, dipteral, and hypaethral."
• "The amphiprostyle is in all other respects like the prostyle, but has besides, in the rear, the same arrangement of columns and pediment."
• "In the latter, excepting in the prostyle temple, the front had hardly any distinctive characteristic, in the peripteral, amphiprostyle, and other temples the back and front were alike."