Arch. Also 9 -bat. [ad. L. stȳlobata: see prec.] A continuous basement upon which a row of columns is supported. See STEREOBATE.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. xliii. Its Stylobates or Footsteps.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Builder, 314. Fifty-two columns … standing on a circular stylobat.
1827. Gentl. Mag., XCVII. II. 11. A circular temple, raised on a stylobate of three steps.
1887. Times (weekly ed.). Dec., 15/1. The temple rests on a stylobate, having a finely moulded base and surbase.
1902. A. J. Evans, in Ann. Brit. Sch. Athens 1901–2, 48. A raised base or stylobate which formed a division between the two halves of the Megaron.
