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Word Meanings - MONUMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial. Of ancient British art A pleasing monument. Philips. Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. Shak. 2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected

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1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial. Of ancient British art A pleasing monument. Philips. Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. Shak. 2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions. On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial. Shak. 3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary. 4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. Foxe. Syn. -- Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.

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  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • RELICT
    A woman whose husband is dead; a widow. Eli dying without issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.
  • CREDENTIAL
    Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting. Their credential letters on both sides. Camden.
  • MEMORIAL DAY
    A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the
  • INSCRIPTION
    A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle. 4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage. (more info) 1.
  • MEMENTO MORI
    Lit., remember to die, i.e., that you must die; a warning to be prepared for death; an object, as a death's-head or a personal ornament, usually emblematic, used as a reminder of death.
  • CELEBRATION
    The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.
  • MEMORIALIZER
    One who petitions by a memorial. T. Hook.
  • MEMORIALIZE
    To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature. T. Hook.
  • RECORDATION
    Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. Shak.
  • RELICTED
    Left uncovered, as land by recession of water. Bouvier.
  • MEMORIALIST
    One who writes or signs a memorial.
  • MEMORIAL
    1. Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building. There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame. Pope. 2. Contained in memory; as, a memorial possession. 3. Mnemonic; assisting the
  • MONUMENTALLY
    1. By way of memorial. 2. By means of monuments.
  • RECORDER
    A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (more info) 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions. 2. The title of the
  • SUPPRESSION
    Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. Quain. (more info) 1. The act of suppressing,
  • RECORDERSHIP
    The office of a recorder.
  • RECORD
    L. recordari to remember; pref. re- re- + cor, cordis, the heart or 1. To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate. "I it you record." Chaucer. 2. To repeat; to recite; to sing or play. They longed to see the day, to hear the lark
  • TESTIMONIAL
    1. A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing. 2. Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services
  • RECORDING
    Keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.
  • INSUPPRESSIBLE
    That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
  • UNREMEMBRANCE
    Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.
  • DERELICTION
    A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
  • INSUPPRESSIVE
    Insuppressible. "The insuppressive mettle of our spirits." Shak.
  • DERELICT
    1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer.
  • POURELICHE
    Poorly. Chaucer.
  • PRECORDIAL
    Situated in front of the heart; of or pertaining to the præcordia.

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