[An etymologically incorrect form (see COLUMNATION), modelled app. on intercolumniation, f. L. intercolumnium. (Columination in quot. 1592 was perh. an intentional form, from L. columen = columna.)]
Arch. ‘The employment of columns in a design’ (Gwilt).
1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 44 b. What order of columination, and what space betwixt.
1664. Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Archit., xxviii. 68. That manner of Columniation which the Greeks have termed Pycnostylos.
1859. Sat. Rev., 19 Nov., 610/1. The architecture of fenestration and the architecture of columniation are irreconcilable.
b. Division (of a page) into columns. nonce-use.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Ser. I. i. (1865), 3. Their sums in triple columniations.
