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▪ I. cenotaph, n.|ˈsɛnətɑːf, -æ-| In 7– aphe. [a. F. cenotaphe (16th c.) ad. L. cenotaphium, or its original, Gr. κενοτάϕιον, f. κενός empty + τάϕος tomb. The L. & Gr. pl. cenotaphia has also been used in Eng.] a. An empty tomb; a sepulchral monument erected in honour of a deceased person whose body is elsewhere.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1244 Their Cenotaphe or imaginary tombe which was erected in Isthmus. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §254 (1810) 262 Sir John Sully..hath here a cenotaphe. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 794 To Agamemnon's name A Cenotaph I raise of deathless fame. a1859Macaulay Biog. (1867) 74 Some of Goldsmith's friends..honoured him with a cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. b. In etymological sense of ‘empty sepulchre’ (whence one has risen). Also fig.
1642Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. 19 To see him [Christ] in his glory, rather than to contemplate him in his Cœnotaphe, or Sepulchre. 1820Shelley Cloud 81, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph. 1878G. Macdonald St. George & St. M. 5 Turning her back on the cenotaph of their former greatness. ▪ II. cenotaph, v. [f. the n.] trans. To honour or commemorate with a cenotaph. So ˈcenotaphed ppl. a.
1845J. R. Planché Golden Fleece ii. 29 Lying, dying, Cenotaphed, and paragraphed. 1891Kipling Light that Failed iv, The oblivion that is preceded by toleration and cenotaphed with contempt. a1893J. H. Boner Poe's Cottage vii. (Funk), And fate that then denied him, And envy that decried him, And malice that belied him, Have cenotaphed his fame. |