monumentaladj.n.

Brit.

/ˌmɒnjᵿˈmɛntl/, U.S.

/ˌmɑnjəˈmɛn(t)l/

Forms: 1500s–1600s monumentall, 1600s monimental, 1600s– monumental.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin monumentālis.

Etymology: < classical Latin monumentālis (1st cent. a.d.) < monumentum monument n. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare French monumental relating to monuments (1802), of majestic grandeur (1805). Compare slightly earlier monumentary adj.

A. adj.

a. Serving as a monument or memorial.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [adjective] > serving as monument

monumental1596

1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. E8 The dangerous straights that yet doe bear his name, Are monumentall annals of the same.

1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse iii. ii, in Wks. (1873) III. 55 I will now bestow my wealth in Monumental good deeds.

1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding ii. vii, in Comedies & Trag. 105 They wear out their youth and beauty, without hope of a monumental Ballad.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 276 The Mole..Toils much to earn a monumental pile, That may record the mischiefs he has done.

1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 30 A name that will be well remembered as..long as the monumental debt of England shall endure.

1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 108 The monumental chapels of this style are peculiarly deserving attention.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxxi. 516 His second in command..opened fire upon the swarms of natives on the beach, and one of his cannon balls cut this cocoanut tree short off and left this monumental stump standing.

1897 H. E. Chetwynd-Stapylton Stapeltons of Yorks. 191 Torre also saw four monumental slabstones.

1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles v. 132 At Wayland's Smithy..monumental peristaliths of standing sarsen stones..surrounded the mound.

1981 M. Babson Bejewelled Death i. 14 The Orpington Bequest..was the last of the monumental suites..to have survived.

†b. That serves as a token or reminder; spec. acting as a proof of identity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [adjective]

monumentala1616

identifying1683

distinguishing1687

marking1795

characterizing1870

identificatory1887

the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [adjective] > as memento

monumentala1616

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 18 Hee hath giuen her his monumentall Ring.

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 207 I exposed her with these monumentall toyes.

1736 M. Chandler Descr. Bath (ed. 3) 11 A Marble Cross..deck'd with monumental Crutches, shows What mighty Cures this wond'rous Pool has done, And these the Trophies from Diseases won.

2. Of or relating to a monument or memorial structure, or to monuments in general. In early use: †of or relating to the tomb; sepulchral (cf. monument n. 1) (obsolete). Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [adjective]

monumental1603

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [adjective]

monumental1603

sepulchrala1631

tumulary1758

tombal1861

tombic1868

1603 T. Powell Vertues Due sig. C6 The hallowedst mold, Left for monumentall vse.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 5 Skin..smooth, as monumentall Alablaster.

1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 35 Softly may he be possest, Of his monumentall rest.

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. vi. 591 Press'd with a Load of Monumental Clay!

1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) ii. 313 And Monumental Brass this record bears.

1769 J. Thorpe (title) Registrum Roffense: or, A collection of..instruments of divers kinds..together with the monumental inscriptions in the several churches and chapels.

1837 J. Phillips Treat. Geol. I. 6 The general rules of geology contribute continually to fill up the void spaces in its monumental history.

1883 I. Taylor Alphabet I. v. 263 In the earlier monumental scripts the letters are separate, but in some of the Egyptian papyri certain letters are united by ligatures.

1944 W. Morgan in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder ix. 307/1 Marbles possess a compact crystalline structure and are employed largely for interior work and monumental purposes.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 June 62/2 When the two men became friendly in 1916, van der Leck was attempting to revive an interest in monumental, muralistic art.

3. Resembling or suggestive of a monument; like a monument, esp. in being large, solid, imposing, etc.

ΚΠ

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 147 Perseuerance deere my Lord: Keepes honour bright, to haue done, is to hang, Quite out of fashion like a rusty male, In monumentall mockry.

1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 42 Shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oake.

a1717 E. Baynard Health (1719) 25 Lot's sad monumental Wife.

1732 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) I. 241 Her Fortune I deplore, Who, now condemn'd to monumental Arms, Hears the dull Sot upon her Bosom snore.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 18 A monumental building, such as a church should be.

1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 8 May 2/2 The monumental fourpost bed has been taken down.

1931 V. Woolf Waves 135 ‘And Miss Lambert, Miss Cutting and Miss Bard,’ said Jinny, ‘monumental ladies, white-ruffed, stone-coloured, enigmatic.’

1988 S. Quinn Mind of her Own iii. 56 The monumental granite offices of the shipping giant Hapag.

2000 Ceramic Rev. Jan. 28/1 His freely energetic and often monumental forms allow the materiality of porcelain to speak out.

4. In extended use (esp. of non-material things): comparable to a monument in massiveness or permanence; vast, stupendous; (of a work of art or literature) great in ambition or scope.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge

un-i-fohOE

ormeteOE

hugea1275

un-i-feiec1275

infinitec1385

ponderousa1400

hugeful1413

hugyc1420

thrice1470

felon?a1500

hugeousa1529

enormous1544

enormc1560

fell1586

prodigious1601

immensive1604

colossic1607

monumental1632

vast1637

unfathomed1659

colossal1664

ponderose1680

heroic1785

colossian1794

pyramidal1849

astronomical1871

astronomic1923

stratospheric1932

cosmic1935

ginormous1942

galactic1960

mega1968

humongous1970

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky > and solid

greateOE

stour?a1300

fata1325

mightyc1375

sternc1394

stiffc1400

massivec1425

mastiff1495

gross1516

massy1548

robustious1548

mountainousa1616

monumental1632

mountain1633

lusty1640

beamy1697

material1736

Himalayan1878

wodgy1907

monolith1922

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > monumental or classic

classic1597

classical1599

monumental1894

1632 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xi. 375 Our hospitable bounty open lies To men of vulgar ranke: what owes it then To your high spirit, so renoun'd by men? Of monumentall praise?

1655 W. Hammond Poems 16 Or what monumentall boast The first world made, the latter lost.

1708 D. Manley Almyna iii. i. 32 In Heav'n, thy broken Vow recorded stands, A Monumental Breach of Friendship.

a1748 I. Watts Wks. (1810) IV. 297 Raise monumental praises high To him that thunders through the sky.

1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art (1875) iii. 70 I think the ‘Dunciad’ is the most absolutely chiselled and monumental work ‘exacted’ in our country.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 74 His monumental obtuseness.

1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Pref. 11 Dr. Reeve's original edition of Adamnan, a truly monumental work.

1901 Weekly Reg. 6 Dec. 714 Manuals of etiquette..embodying monumental snobbery and priggishness.

1958 R. K. Narayan Guide vii. 100 Such a simple matter as finding food or shelter or buying a railway ticket seemed to him a monumental job.

1994 Guardian 7 July (OnLine section) 3/1 Project Gutenberg, a monumental endeavour to circulate the world's favourite literary texts on the Internet.

5. Historically prominent or conspicuous; of enduring significance. Now rare (except as merging into sense A. 4).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [adjective] > eternally or historically famous

ever-livingc1450

immortal?1518

eternized1603

monumental1664

eternalized1830

1664 Bp. H. King Elegies 17 in Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes & Sonets (ed. 2) And that succeeding ages may keep safe Your Lov'd remembrance in some Epitaph, Upon the ruins of your glorious Youth Inscribed be this Monumentall Truth.

1785 C. Macklin Man of World iv. 54 Send his infamy down to a free posterity, as a monumental terror to corrupt ambition.

1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 36 in Poems I Thou shalt be an Idea to all souls;—A monumental melancholy gloom Seen down all ages.

1871 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 63 That gallery of monumental men and mighty memories.

1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 94 The relation of Dante to literature is monumental, and marks the era at which the modern begins.

1956 G. Taylor Silver v. 135 The Parisian goldsmiths..effected a monumental elegance..due to an admirable harmony.

†B. n. Usually in plural.

1. Identifying tokens. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [noun]

tokenc1000

distinctionc1374

differencea1398

signeta1425

knowledge?c1475

smell?a1505

markc1522

badge1529

note1583

impress1590

monument1590

type1595

stamp1600

pressure1604

mintage1612

criterion1613

impressa1628

differencer1633

lineament1638

mole1644

discrimination1646

tessera1647

diagnostic1651

monumental1657

discretive1660

signate1662

footmark1666

trait1752

memorandum1766

fingerprint1792

insignia1796

identifier1807

designative1824

cachet1840

differentiator1854

tanga1867

trademark1869

signature1873

totem1875

differential1883

earmarkings1888

paw print1894

discriminator1943

ident1952

1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 203 Now it seem'd best..to view the monumentals.

2. Monumental buildings or constructions; monuments. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection

markOE

monumentc1400

funerala1547

monumentala1687

remain1687

marker1906

a1687 C. Cotton tr. Martial Epigr. in Poems (1689) 562 When raz'd Messalla's Monumentals must Lye with Licinus's lofty Tomb in dust.

1846 J. F. Cooper Redskins II. iii. 45 There they sits, sir, day in and day out, looking like monumentals of past times.

1867 Harper's Mag. May 814/2 The good soul knew what grave-stones meant, but wasn't so well up in her monumentals.

Compounds

monumental mason n. a maker of monuments in stone.

ΚΠ

1867 Post Office London Directory 1898/2 Monumental masons, see Stone & Marble Masons.

1895 T. Hardy Jude v. i. 327 What a cheap man this ‘Jude Fawley: Monumental Mason’ (as he called himself on his front door) was to employ for..simple memorials.

1991 J. Spottiswoode Undertaken with Love 100 They now not only conduct funerals but have their own joiners and monumental masons making coffins and headstones.

monumental masonry n. monumental stonework, gravestones or stone memorials collectively; also figurative.

ΚΠ

1858 F. B. Wilkie Davenport Past & Present ii. 13 The funeral march of once powerful tribes has but just passed the grounds covered with the monumental masonry of the Pale Faces.

1962 G. Thomas Keep i. 25 Anybody selling monumental masonry in..towns..where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud, deserves a bath in drambuie.

1989 Spectator 15 Apr. 27/1 Is biography ceasing to be art, and becoming a form of monumental masonry?

monumental sculptor n. = monumental mason n.

ΚΠ

1856 Eng. Cycl., Biogr. II. 163 Chantrey's career for the last twenty years of his life, as a monumental sculptor, was unrivalled.

1992 Economist 10 Oct. 128/1 The Tate has an imaginative policy of giving this space over to a monumental sculptor each autumn to do a site-specific work.

monumental sculpture n. (as a count noun) a sculpture that is a monument; (without article) sculpture of this type.

ΚΠ

1839 E. S. Wortley Visionary iii. ii. 198 Her forehead, colourless as mountain snow, Like monumental sculpture seems to be.

1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 156 The Brancaccio monumental sculpture is unfinished to a far greater extent than hitherto realized.

1993 National Art-Coll. Fund Art Q. Autumn 43/2 A square with a ninety-foot cascading fountain married to a group of monumental sculptures.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	monumental
释义	monumentaladj.n. Brit. /ˌmɒnjᵿˈmɛntl/, U.S. /ˌmɑnjəˈmɛn(t)l/ Forms: 1500s–1600s monumentall, 1600s monimental, 1600s– monumental. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin monumentālis. Etymology: < classical Latin monumentālis (1st cent. a.d.) < monumentum monument n. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare French monumental relating to monuments (1802), of majestic grandeur (1805). Compare slightly earlier monumentary adj. A. adj. 1. a. Serving as a monument or memorial. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [adjective] > serving as monument monumental1596 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. E8 The dangerous straights that yet doe bear his name, Are monumentall annals of the same. 1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse iii. ii, in Wks. (1873) III. 55 I will now bestow my wealth in Monumental good deeds. 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding ii. vii, in Comedies & Trag. 105 They wear out their youth and beauty, without hope of a monumental Ballad. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 276 The Mole..Toils much to earn a monumental pile, That may record the mischiefs he has done. 1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1815) IV. 30 A name that will be well remembered as..long as the monumental debt of England shall endure. 1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 108 The monumental chapels of this style are peculiarly deserving attention. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxxi. 516 His second in command..opened fire upon the swarms of natives on the beach, and one of his cannon balls cut this cocoanut tree short off and left this monumental stump standing. 1897 H. E. Chetwynd-Stapylton Stapeltons of Yorks. 191 Torre also saw four monumental slabstones. 1954 S. Piggott Neolithic Cultures Brit. Isles v. 132 At Wayland's Smithy..monumental peristaliths of standing sarsen stones..surrounded the mound. 1981 M. Babson Bejewelled Death i. 14 The Orpington Bequest..was the last of the monumental suites..to have survived. †b. That serves as a token or reminder; spec. acting as a proof of identity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [adjective] monumentala1616 identifying1683 distinguishing1687 marking1795 characterizing1870 identificatory1887 the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [adjective] > as memento monumentala1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 18 Hee hath giuen her his monumentall Ring. View more context for this quotation 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 207 I exposed her with these monumentall toyes. 1736 M. Chandler Descr. Bath (ed. 3) 11 A Marble Cross..deck'd with monumental Crutches, shows What mighty Cures this wond'rous Pool has done, And these the Trophies from Diseases won. 2. Of or relating to a monument or memorial structure, or to monuments in general. In early use: †of or relating to the tomb; sepulchral (cf. monument n. 1) (obsolete). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [adjective] monumental1603 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [adjective] monumental1603 sepulchrala1631 tumulary1758 tombal1861 tombic1868 1603 T. Powell Vertues Due sig. C6 The hallowedst mold, Left for monumentall vse. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 5 Skin..smooth, as monumentall Alablaster. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 35 Softly may he be possest, Of his monumentall rest. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. vi. 591 Press'd with a Load of Monumental Clay! 1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) ii. 313 And Monumental Brass this record bears. 1769 J. Thorpe (title) Registrum Roffense: or, A collection of..instruments of divers kinds..together with the monumental inscriptions in the several churches and chapels. 1837 J. Phillips Treat. Geol. I. 6 The general rules of geology contribute continually to fill up the void spaces in its monumental history. 1883 I. Taylor Alphabet I. v. 263 In the earlier monumental scripts the letters are separate, but in some of the Egyptian papyri certain letters are united by ligatures. 1944 W. Morgan in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder ix. 307/1 Marbles possess a compact crystalline structure and are employed largely for interior work and monumental purposes. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 June 62/2 When the two men became friendly in 1916, van der Leck was attempting to revive an interest in monumental, muralistic art. 3. Resembling or suggestive of a monument; like a monument, esp. in being large, solid, imposing, etc. ΚΠ 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 147 Perseuerance deere my Lord: Keepes honour bright, to haue done, is to hang, Quite out of fashion like a rusty male, In monumentall mockry. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 42 Shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oake. a1717 E. Baynard Health (1719) 25 Lot's sad monumental Wife. 1732 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) I. 241 Her Fortune I deplore, Who, now condemn'd to monumental Arms, Hears the dull Sot upon her Bosom snore. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 18 A monumental building, such as a church should be. 1879 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 8 May 2/2 The monumental fourpost bed has been taken down. 1931 V. Woolf Waves 135 ‘And Miss Lambert, Miss Cutting and Miss Bard,’ said Jinny, ‘monumental ladies, white-ruffed, stone-coloured, enigmatic.’ 1988 S. Quinn Mind of her Own iii. 56 The monumental granite offices of the shipping giant Hapag. 2000 Ceramic Rev. Jan. 28/1 His freely energetic and often monumental forms allow the materiality of porcelain to speak out. 4. In extended use (esp. of non-material things): comparable to a monument in massiveness or permanence; vast, stupendous; (of a work of art or literature) great in ambition or scope. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge un-i-fohOE ormeteOE hugea1275 un-i-feiec1275 infinitec1385 ponderousa1400 hugeful1413 hugyc1420 thrice1470 felon?a1500 hugeousa1529 enormous1544 enormc1560 fell1586 prodigious1601 immensive1604 colossic1607 monumental1632 vast1637 unfathomed1659 colossal1664 ponderose1680 heroic1785 colossian1794 pyramidal1849 astronomical1871 astronomic1923 stratospheric1932 cosmic1935 ginormous1942 galactic1960 mega1968 humongous1970 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky > and solid greateOE stour?a1300 fata1325 mightyc1375 sternc1394 stiffc1400 massivec1425 mastiff1495 gross1516 massy1548 robustious1548 mountainousa1616 monumental1632 mountain1633 lusty1640 beamy1697 material1736 Himalayan1878 wodgy1907 monolith1922 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > monumental or classic classic1597 classical1599 monumental1894 1632 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xi. 375 Our hospitable bounty open lies To men of vulgar ranke: what owes it then To your high spirit, so renoun'd by men? Of monumentall praise? 1655 W. Hammond Poems 16 Or what monumentall boast The first world made, the latter lost. 1708 D. Manley Almyna iii. i. 32 In Heav'n, thy broken Vow recorded stands, A Monumental Breach of Friendship. a1748 I. Watts Wks. (1810) IV. 297 Raise monumental praises high To him that thunders through the sky. 1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art (1875) iii. 70 I think the ‘Dunciad’ is the most absolutely chiselled and monumental work ‘exacted’ in our country. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 74 His monumental obtuseness. 1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Pref. 11 Dr. Reeve's original edition of Adamnan, a truly monumental work. 1901 Weekly Reg. 6 Dec. 714 Manuals of etiquette..embodying monumental snobbery and priggishness. 1958 R. K. Narayan Guide vii. 100 Such a simple matter as finding food or shelter or buying a railway ticket seemed to him a monumental job. 1994 Guardian 7 July (OnLine section) 3/1 Project Gutenberg, a monumental endeavour to circulate the world's favourite literary texts on the Internet. 5. Historically prominent or conspicuous; of enduring significance. Now rare (except as merging into sense A. 4). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [adjective] > eternally or historically famous ever-livingc1450 immortal?1518 eternized1603 monumental1664 eternalized1830 1664 Bp. H. King Elegies 17 in Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes & Sonets (ed. 2) And that succeeding ages may keep safe Your Lov'd remembrance in some Epitaph, Upon the ruins of your glorious Youth Inscribed be this Monumentall Truth. 1785 C. Macklin Man of World iv. 54 Send his infamy down to a free posterity, as a monumental terror to corrupt ambition. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 36 in Poems I Thou shalt be an Idea to all souls;—A monumental melancholy gloom Seen down all ages. 1871 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 63 That gallery of monumental men and mighty memories. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 94 The relation of Dante to literature is monumental, and marks the era at which the modern begins. 1956 G. Taylor Silver v. 135 The Parisian goldsmiths..effected a monumental elegance..due to an admirable harmony. †B. n. Usually in plural. 1. Identifying tokens. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [noun] tokenc1000 distinctionc1374 differencea1398 signeta1425 knowledge?c1475 smell?a1505 markc1522 badge1529 note1583 impress1590 monument1590 type1595 stamp1600 pressure1604 mintage1612 criterion1613 impressa1628 differencer1633 lineament1638 mole1644 discrimination1646 tessera1647 diagnostic1651 monumental1657 discretive1660 signate1662 footmark1666 trait1752 memorandum1766 fingerprint1792 insignia1796 identifier1807 designative1824 cachet1840 differentiator1854 tanga1867 trademark1869 signature1873 totem1875 differential1883 earmarkings1888 paw print1894 discriminator1943 ident1952 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 203 Now it seem'd best..to view the monumentals. 2. Monumental buildings or constructions; monuments. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection markOE monumentc1400 funerala1547 monumentala1687 remain1687 marker1906 a1687 C. Cotton tr. Martial Epigr. in Poems (1689) 562 When raz'd Messalla's Monumentals must Lye with Licinus's lofty Tomb in dust. 1846 J. F. Cooper Redskins II. iii. 45 There they sits, sir, day in and day out, looking like monumentals of past times. 1867 Harper's Mag. May 814/2 The good soul knew what grave-stones meant, but wasn't so well up in her monumentals. Compounds monumental mason n. a maker of monuments in stone. ΚΠ 1867 Post Office London Directory 1898/2 Monumental masons, see Stone & Marble Masons. 1895 T. Hardy Jude v. i. 327 What a cheap man this ‘Jude Fawley: Monumental Mason’ (as he called himself on his front door) was to employ for..simple memorials. 1991 J. Spottiswoode Undertaken with Love 100 They now not only conduct funerals but have their own joiners and monumental masons making coffins and headstones. monumental masonry n. monumental stonework, gravestones or stone memorials collectively; also figurative. ΚΠ 1858 F. B. Wilkie Davenport Past & Present ii. 13 The funeral march of once powerful tribes has but just passed the grounds covered with the monumental masonry of the Pale Faces. 1962 G. Thomas Keep i. 25 Anybody selling monumental masonry in..towns..where the only concession to gaiety is a striped shroud, deserves a bath in drambuie. 1989 Spectator 15 Apr. 27/1 Is biography ceasing to be art, and becoming a form of monumental masonry? monumental sculptor n. = monumental mason n. ΚΠ 1856 Eng. Cycl., Biogr. II. 163 Chantrey's career for the last twenty years of his life, as a monumental sculptor, was unrivalled. 1992 Economist 10 Oct. 128/1 The Tate has an imaginative policy of giving this space over to a monumental sculptor each autumn to do a site-specific work. monumental sculpture n. (as a count noun) a sculpture that is a monument; (without article) sculpture of this type. ΚΠ 1839 E. S. Wortley Visionary iii. ii. 198 Her forehead, colourless as mountain snow, Like monumental sculpture seems to be. 1981 Antiquaries Jrnl. 61 156 The Brancaccio monumental sculpture is unfinished to a far greater extent than hitherto realized. 1993 National Art-Coll. Fund Art Q. Autumn 43/2 A square with a ninety-foot cascading fountain married to a group of monumental sculptures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1596
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