The horizontal lines of the abacus, thus supplanted, were represented upon the Ionic column only by a narrow moulding, curved to the profile of a cyma and sculptured with a leaved ornament.
The epistyle is terminated by a Lesbian cyma and an astragal, the latter being, in some instances, repeated upon every light step from beam to beam beneath.
The Doric cymais commonly called the beak-moulding, the Lesbian cyma the cyma reversa.
In the place of the dentils, a transition was provided by a cyma and astragal, which mouldings received in Athens their typical perfection.
When the crowning moulding of an entablature is of the cyma form, it is called a "cymatium.
When the concave part is uppermost, it is called a cyma recta; but if the convex portion is at the top, it is called a cyma reversa.
A molding, the section of which is the form of the letter S, with the convex part above; cyma reversa.
The sima or gutter-facing, whose profile is here a cyma recta (concave above and convex below), is enriched with sculptured floral ornament.
A moulding consisting of a round and hollow conjoined, termed cyma recta when hollow above, and cyma reversa when the cavity is below.
Furthermore just such cyma pieces have been discovered belonging to other structures in Olympia and amid the pre-Persian ruins on the Acropolis of Athens.
The corresponding cyma was of the same material and similarly decorated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cyma" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
