About The Word Sarcophagus
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Sarcophagus
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What's The Definition Of Sarcophagus?
[n] a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Sarcophagus: Related Terms | Find terms related to Sarcophagus: Sarcophagus In Webster's Dictionary \Sar*coph"a*gus\, n.; pl. L. {Sarcophagi}, E.
{Sarcophaguses}. [L., fr. Gr. sarkofa`gos, properly, eating
flesh; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + fagei^n to eat. Cf.
{Sarcasm}.]
1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making
coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a
few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is
otherwise called {lapis Assius}, or {Assian stone}, and is
said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
--Holland.
2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin.
3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as
a memorial.
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