Arch. Obs. Also cymace, cymaize, cimaise. [F. cymaise, ad. L. cymatium: see below.] = CYMA, CYMATIUM.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Cymace … a ledge or outward member in Architecture, fashioned somewhat like a Roman S, and termed a Wave or Ogee.
1726. Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., II. 32 a. The cymaize being any list that is at the top of any member. Ibid., 35 a. The heads of the Mutules are cut perpendicular, with a cymaise over them.
1761. Brit. Mag., II. 642. The true cima, or cimaise, imitated in ornaments.
