SARCOPHAGUS
\sɑːkˈɒfəɡəs], \sɑːkˈɒfəɡəs], \s_ɑː_k_ˈɒ_f_ə_ɡ_ə_s]\
Definitions of SARCOPHAGUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
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A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
By Oddity Software
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A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
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A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A kind of lime-stone used by the Greeks for coffins, and so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses: any stone receptacle for a corpse.
By Daniel Lyons
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Stone receptacle for a corpse.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Carnivorous, Catheretic.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Greek] A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins-so called because it consumed the flesh of bodies deposited in it within a few weeks-hence, a coffin or tomb of this kind of stone; and, generally, a stone coffin;-also, a monumental chest or vase of stone or bronze erected over graves;-also, an article of domestic furniture in the shape of a sarcophagus for holding knives, plate, &c.; a kind of cellaret.