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necropolis|nɛˈkrɒpəʊlɪs|
Also nekro-.
[a. Gr. νεκρόπολις city of the dead, cemetery, f. νεκρός corpse + πόλις city.]
A cemetery; freq. used as the name of large cemeteries in or near cities.
1819Southey in Q. Rev. XXI. 381 To rid the city of its burial places, and establish a necropolis without the walls. 1831J. Strang Necropolis Glasguensis Pref. 6 Argument for the establishment in this neighbourhood of a Necropolis. 1870–4J. Thomson City Dreadf. Nt. i. viii, In some necropolis you find Perchance one mourner to a thousand dead.
fig.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. vii, How shall we domesticate ourselves in this spectral Necropolis, or rather City both of the Dead and of the Unborn?
attrib.1854Card. Wiseman Fabiola ii. i, It was not a cemetery or necropolis company.., but rather a pious and recognised confraternity.
b. An old or prehistoric burying-place.
1850Grote Greece ii. lix. (1862) V. 213 Extensive catacombs yet remain to mark the length of time during which this ancient Nekropolis served its purpose. 1874Green Short Hist. i. §1. 9 Hill and hill-slope were the necropolis of a vanished race.
c. pl. in various forms.
Necropoles may possibly be intended as pl. of necropole, after F. nécropole; there is, however, no example of such a form in the singular.
1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 695 The most remarkable necropolises are that of Thebes, [etc.]. 1874M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Ramble ii. vii. (1878) 380 Save these two necropoli, I have seen all the most celebrated monuments of Japan. 1885Century Mag. XXXI. 2 The necropoleis of Lycian Myra. 1885Pall Mall G. 13 June 4/2 Mr. Richter's researches into the early necropoles of Cyprus.
Hence necroˈpolitan a., of or belonging to a necropolis.
1892Spectator 23 Jan. 115 That singular necropolitan peerage, the death-list of the Times. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. v. 965 Always in contrast with these necropolitan streets, these masks of human dwellings, were Michael's own thoughts thronged with fancies of himself and Lily. 1916A. Huxley Burning Wheel 48 The necropolitan ground. 1931A. Gibbs New Crusade 78 The long arm of coincidence was in his case the long arm of the law, white sleeved, and it was raised against the further progress of her vehicle to allow a large necropolitan car to come swinging serenely from the Embankment to the left over Westminster Bridge. 1960Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May p. xi/2 The curiously necropolitan conventions of the worst comic strips. |