1. (a.) Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.

2. (a.) of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful.

3. (n.) Romanesque style.

Byzantine Corinthian Doric Gothic Greek Ionic Moorish Romanesque Tuscan anatomic architectonic building constructional edificial formal housing morphological organic organismal structural substructural superstructural tectonic textural