sarcophagus

[sar·coph·a·gus]

If you want to go out in style, buy yourself a sarcophagus a very fancy coffin usually decorated with elaborate carvings. If King Tut could arrange it, so can you!

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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.

Noun
a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)


n.
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.

n.
A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.

n.
A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.


Sarcophagus

Sar*coph"a*gus , n.; pl. L. Sarcophagi , E. Sarcophaguses . [L., fr. Gr. , properly, eating flesh; , , , flesh + 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.

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.

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