单词 | monumented |
释义 | monumentedadj. Commemorated with or by a monument; bearing or provided with a monument or monuments; serving as a monument. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [adjective] > commemorated by monument monumented1606 1606 J. Ford Fames Memoriall sig. C3v Or leaue his liuelesse carkasse as a mirror Of monumented feare to friends of error. 1774 S. Wesley in Westm. Mag. 2 654 When..lies desert the monumented clay. a1796 R. Burns Bk. of Snobs xxvii, in Compl. Wks. (1859) 365 Where the Carabas family have their ancestral carved and monumented Gothic pew. 1844 R. Chambers Vestiges Nat. Hist. Creation 322 The dimly monumented Toltecans. 1883 H. C. Merivale White Pilgrim 88 I turned me from the hum of men alone; And, as my vagrant fancy led me, wandered Amid the maze of monumented stone. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xxv. 546 The world needs not martyrs, not corpses rotting in unmarked or monumented graves, but intelligent men and women. 1968 Amer. Midland Naturalist 79 243 The lone surveyor, however, will benefit from establishing more monumented stations in his control survey. 1999 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times (Nexis) 16 Nov. a3 The Chickamauga site is the most heavily monumented in the National Park Service with 1000 historic monuments, markers and tablets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1606 |
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