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apsidal.

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Relating to an apse or shaped like a curved or polygonal recess at the end of a building.

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  • apsidal chapel
  • apsidal end

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An apsidal chapel extended beyond the main wall.

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Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.

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