Acropolitan

acropolitan English Etymology en acropolitan. Pronunciation ăk'rəpŏʹlĭtən RP, en /ˌækɹəˈpɒlɪtən/ Adjective - Of, pertaining to, or in the style of the Athenian Acropolis; compare en acropolitan. en 1854 Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical Robert Stuart New York A. S. Barnes & Co. 1 60 1 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JKkaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA60 Who first surrounded the Acropolitan platform with a wall, is unknown, but it is probable that the work of Pelasgi may be traced in part of the boundary wall, from a division of it having received that name by tradition. en 1854 Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Topographical, Decorative, Theoretical and Mechanical Robert Stuart New York A. S. Barnes & Co. 1 63-64 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JKkaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 The walls of Tiryns and Mycenæ, are the finest remains of Acropolitan building in Greece, but they are inferior in magnitude to erections, (called Cyclopean), of Norba, in Latium; and several other Pelasgic fortresses of Cora, Signia, and Alatrium, in Italy, (the walls of which resemble those of Tiryns, Argos, and Mycenæ,) whose wonderful ruins exhibit walls of equal strength and solidity with those of Argolis. en 1900 The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine C. Osborne Ward 2 Chicago Charles H. Kerr & Company 9th 336 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Oo8lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA336 a ferocious gang of Athenian officers, skyward, headed perhaps, by the triumphant Demosthenes, to the Acropolitan cliff, and to see her palsying form slugged down the abyss. The mangled head and trunk, and limbs, dumb in life’s last quivering gasp are the horrid subject of the epitaph. en Ethnologia Balkanica 199 2006 10 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KNXYAAAAMAAJ&q=Acropolitan&dq=Acropolitan&ei=HimiSpu4IovgyQSxo9mLCA The younger and wealthier members of the White Acropolis felt the need for some new Acropolitan associations to be created to deal with explicitly political issues concerning the Acropolis region.