architectonic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ar=chi=tec=ton=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

architectonic, a. [L. architectonicus, Gr. . See Architect.].

•  Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive.  Boyle.  [1913 Webster]

  "These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged."  [1913 Webster]
•  Relating to the systemizing of knowledge.  [1913 Webster]

architectonic, n. [Cf. F. architectonique.].

•  The science of architecture.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of arranging knowledge into a system.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

architectonic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or relating to architecture or architects.
2 of or relating to the systematization of knowledge.
--n. (in pl.; usu. treated as sing.)
1 the scientific study of architecture.
2 the study of the systematization of knowledge.

Etymology

L architectonicus f. Gk arkhitektonikos (as ARCHITECT)

ROGET THESAURUS

architectonic

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.