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marmoreal, a. poet. and rhet.|mɑːˈmɔərɪəl|
[f. L. marmore-us (f. marmor marble) + -al1.]
1. Resembling marble or a marble statue; cold, smooth, white, etc., like marble.
1798Landor Gebir Wks. 1846 II. 494 Looking recumbent how Love's column rose Marmoreal. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam i. xlix, Paving with fire the sky and the marmoreal floods. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 53 Marmoreal neck and bosom uberous. 1892Sat. Rev. 15 Oct. 443/1 Blank-verse studies of merit, but somewhat cold and marmoreal in their severity.
2. Made or composed of marble.
1825New Monthly Mag. XIII. 181 Spurs of marble, and marmoreal limbs. 1880W. Watson Prince's Quest, Sunset (1892) 134 Minaret And terrace and marmoreal spire.
Hence marˈmoreally adv.
1847Sir A. De Vere 1st Pt. Mary Tudor v. iii, Cold, but composed, marmoreally rigid! 1887Saintsbury Eliz. Lit. 455 The marmoreally-finished minor poems of Ben [Jonson].
Add: marˈmorealize v. trans. (in fig. use), to commemorate, immortalize.
1948W. de la Mare Chardin 22 The love that..stilled Rupert Brooke's whole universe in his poem, ‘Dining-room Tea’; marmorealized his cup; ‘hung’ the ‘amber stream’ of the tea itself ‘on the air’ [etc.]. 1993Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 2 July (Metro section) b7/1 There is no law that says every milestone in the city's history should be marmorealized on the street. |