单词 | mausolean |
释义 | mausoleanadj. 1. In form Mausolean. Of or relating to Mausolus, governor of Caria in Asia Minor c377–353 b.c.; spec. designating or reminiscent of the magnificent tomb built for him by his widow Artemesia (see mausoleum n. 1). Also in extended use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > king > [adjective] > relating to specific kings mausolean1557 Tarquinian1600 Pontic1611 Thesean1815 Caroline1839 Ricardian1869 Carolean1911 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [adjective] > relating to specific tomb mausoleanc1616 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P No costly tomb..Nor Mausolean masse, hoong in the ayre. c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) ii. 593 The brave erect Mausolian monument. 1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xii. §5. 143 The Mausolean Tombe. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 248 Short-lived Pyramids, or Mausolæan Piles of stone. 1658 J. Rowland Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) New Ded. Ep. sig. A4 The Mausolean Sepulchre, the Colossus of Rhodes, or the Pyramids of Egypt might sooner be renewed. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. v. §53. 347 He hath erected..a Mausolean Pile of Scandal. 1754 S. Bowden Poems Var. Subj. 88 Not Caria's queen with rich Mausolean coast, Or Egypt's towers, cou'd greater trophys boast. 2. Of, relating to, or resembling a mausoleum. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [adjective] mausolean1785 chambered1840 mausoleal1883 transepted1939 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 183 Some have..sought By pyramids and mausolæan pomp..to immortalize their bones. 1835 W. Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited 19 That new Pile, For the departed, built with curious pains And mausolean pomp. 1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night (1880) x. 26 These shapes lit up that mausoléan night. 1891 M. J. Cawein One Day & Another in Days & Dreams 72 With the morning hoary and nipping, Whose mausolean mist Builds white a tomb for the daylight. 1934 C. A. Smith Death of Malygris in Lost Worlds (1944) 107 At a single step they passed into mausolean silence. 1999 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 18 Apr. 1 That's the question this film spends two hours on. And what's worse is that it almost never leaves the mausolean hallways and offices of the Supreme Court. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1557 |
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