Pyramis

Quid? quod illa Teneriff� (qu� vna, est ex insulis Canarijs, qu� & fortunat�) pyramis, secundum Munsterum, 8 aut 9 milliarium ❋ Unknown (2003)

Besides, he deliuereth vnto him a couering of greene veluet made in maner of a pyramis, about nine palmes high, and artificially wrought with most fine golde, and this is to couer the tombe of their prophet within Medina, which tombe is built in manner of a pyramis: and besides that couering there are brought many others of golde and silke, for the ornament of the sayde tombe. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Moreouer, ouer the body they haue built a tombe of speckled stone a brace and a halfe high, [Marginal note: Or, a fathom.] and ouer the same another of Legmame fouresquare in maner of a pyramis. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Quid? quod illa Teneriffæ (quæ vna, est ex insulis Canarijs, quæ & fortunatæ) pyramis, secundum Munsterum, 8 aut 9 milliarium ❋ Unknown (2003)

The anterior district (Fig. 679) is named the pyramid (pyramis medullæ oblongatæ) and lies between the anterior median fissure and the antero-lateral sulcus. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The Greek must have thought that this was the name of the whole structure and giving it a Greek ending he called it a "pyramis." ❋ Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1913)

Leland speaks of it as "a notable and strong square tower for great belles, and a pyramis on it, in the cemiterie." ❋ Gleeson White (1874)

Thus of Greek words we have the following: ‘pyramis’ and ‘pyramides’, forms often employed by ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)

Quid? quod illa Teneriffæ (quæ vna, est ex insulis Canarijs, quæ & fortunatæ) pyramis, secundum Munsterum, 8 aut 9 milliarium Germanicorum altitudine in aëra assurgens, atque instar Ætnæ iugiter conflagrans, niues, quibus media cingitur, teste Benzone Italo, ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)

Suntque omnes fub eadem altitudine inter, fe'icaque erunc vt bafes. hoc eft pyramis ABFD eft ad pyramidem ABEF. vt bafis BFD ad bafim BEF, & fie deinceps in infinicum. ❋ Ismael Boulliau (1657)

a pyramis, with many other of golde and silke, departeth, going thorow the midst of the city, vntill he come to the Mosquita, where hauing praied, he presenteth vnto the tombe of his prophet (where the eunuchs receiuing hands are ready) the vesture for the sayd tombe: and certaine eunuchs entring in take away the old vesture, and lay on the new, burning the olde one, and diuiding the golde thereof into equall portions. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Here again is a fine ancient church with a comely spire, "a pretty pyramis of stone," as the old Itinerary says, overlooking a charming gabled house, among walled and terraced gardens, with stone balls on the corner-posts and a quaint pavilion, the river running below; and so on to a bridge over the yet slender Thames, where the river water spouted clear and fragrant into a wide pool; and across the flat meadows, bright with kingcups, the spire of Lechlade towered over the clustered house-roofs to the west. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

From the time Leland naïvely wrote, "the tower of stone and the high pyramis of stone on it is a noble and memorable 'peace' of work," every critic of the cathedral praises the tower unreservedly, although Defoe was anxious to improve it, for he said: "The beauty of it is hurt by a thing easily to be remedied, which is this. ❋ Gleeson White (1874)

{255} [The Greek _pyramis_ probably represents the Egyptian ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)