Arch. Also 6–7 cimatium, 8 scimatium, 9 -ion. [L. cȳmatium an ogee, an Ionic volute, a. Gr. κυμάτιον, dim. of κῦμα wave, billow, CYMA.] = CYMA.
1563. Shute, Archit., C j b. Coronix … you shall deuid into .4. partes. geue one part vnto Cimatium vnder Corona … the fourth part which remaineth, geue vnto Cymatium ouer Corona.
1663. Gerbier, Counsel (1664), 32. The Cimatium, the list of the Cimatium.
1703. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., 267. Scima reversa, or Scimatium.
1850. Leitch, Müller’s Anc. Art, § 274. 304. The contrast between the Doric and Lesbian cymatium.
1880. J. H. Middleton, in Academy, 21 Aug., 141/1. One of the cornices has been replaced by another one with different dentils and cymatium.
