[L.]
1. The apex or summit; spec. in Arch. the ridge of a house.
1677. Hale, Contempl., II. 125. I have now arrived to the very Fastigium, the very highest point of this Mountain.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Fastigium, the top or height of any Thing: In Architecture, the ridge of a House, the highest pitch of a Building.
1825. W. Hamilton, Hand-bk. Terms Arts & Sc. Fastigium … the summit, apex or ridge of a house, or pediment.
2. The gable end (of a roof); a pediment.
1849. J. Weale, Dict. Terms, Faastigium, the pediment of a portico.
1876. in Gwilt, Archit., Gloss.
3. a. Pathol. The acme or highest state of intensity (of a disease). b. Anat. (see quot. 1884).
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 619. The period of the fastigium, the complete development of the fever, presents much more considerable differences.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., Fastigium, the upper and posterior angle of the fourth ventricle lying between the upper border of the posterior medullary velum and the posterior border of the anterior medullary velum.
