{ } a. Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sothiac year, or Sothic year (Chronol.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1, 460 Sothic years, being equal to 1, 461 vague years. One of these periods ended in July, a. d. 139. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. Gothicus: cf. F. gothique. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
1. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Arch.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. 1. The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Bishop Ulfilas or Walfila translated most of the Bible into Gothic about the Middle of the 4th century. The portion of this translaton which is preserved is the oldest known literary document in any Teutonic language. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This is Nonpareil GOTHIC. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. (Arch.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]
(n) extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas
(n) a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches, Syn.Gothic architecture
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