Hagioscope

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:02:47

Ha"gi*o*scope` (?), n. [Gr. sacred + -scope.]

An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint.

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