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sarcophagus
(encz) | sarcophagus,sarkofág n: Zdeněk Brož |
Sarcophagus
(gcide) | Sarcophagus \Sar*coph"a*gus\, n.; pl. L. Sarcophagi, E.
Sarcophaguses. [L., fr. Gr. sarkofa`gos, properly, eating
flesh; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + fagei^n to eat. Cf.
Sarcasm.]
1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making
coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a
few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is
otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is
said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
--Holland.
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2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin.
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3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as
a memorial.
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sarcophagus
(wn) | sarcophagus
n 1: a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) |
sarcophagus
(devil) | SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a
certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of
devouring the body placed in it. The sarcophagus known to modern
obsequiographers is commonly a product of the carpenter's art.
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Sarcophagus
(gcide) | Sarcophagus \Sar*coph"a*gus\, n.; pl. L. Sarcophagi, E.
Sarcophaguses. [L., fr. Gr. sarkofa`gos, properly, eating
flesh; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + fagei^n to eat. Cf.
Sarcasm.]
1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making
coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a
few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is
otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is
said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
--Holland.
[1913 Webster]
2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin.
[1913 Webster]
3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as
a memorial.
[1913 Webster] |
Sarcophaguses
(gcide) | Sarcophagus \Sar*coph"a*gus\, n.; pl. L. Sarcophagi, E.
Sarcophaguses. [L., fr. Gr. sarkofa`gos, properly, eating
flesh; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + fagei^n to eat. Cf.
Sarcasm.]
1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making
coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a
few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is
otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is
said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
--Holland.
[1913 Webster]
2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin.
[1913 Webster]
3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as
a memorial.
[1913 Webster] |
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