PED'ESTAL, noun [Latin pes, the foot.] In architecture, the lowest part of a column or pillar; the part which sustains a column or serves as its foot. It consists of three parts, the base, the die and the cornice.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.