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mausolean, a.|mɔːsəˈliːən|
Also 7 mausolæan, -lian, 8 -lœan.
[f. mausole-um + -an.]
†1. Mausolean sepulchre, mausolean tomb = mausoleum.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) Pref., The Mausolean Sepulchre, the Colossus of Rhodes, or the Pyramids of Egypt might sooner be renewed. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle ii. 593 The brave erect Mausolian monument. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xii. §5. 143 The Mausolean Tombe.
transf. and fig.1557N. Grimalde in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 117 No costly tomb..Nor Mausolean masse, hoong in the ayre. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 248 Short-lived Pyramids, or Mausolæan Piles of stone. a1734North Exam. ii. v. §53 (1740) 347 He hath erected..a Mausolean Pile of Scandal.
2. Pertaining to, or resembling, mausoleums.
1785Cowper Task v. 183 Some have..sought By pyramids and mausolæan pomp..to immortalize their bones. 1831Wordsw. ‘Well Sang the Bard’, That new Pile, For the departed, built with curious pains And mausolean pomp. 1871–74J. Thomson City Dreadf. Nt. x. v, These shapes lit up that mausoléan night. |