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单词 polyandrum
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polyandrumn.

Forms:

α. 1600s poliander, 1600s polyander.

β. 1600s–1700s polyandrum, 1800s poliandrum.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin polyandrum.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin polyandrum place of burial for a number of people (perhaps 4th cent.), single grave (7th cent.), alteration of polyandrium polyandrion n. Compare Old French poliandre (1295), French †polliandre (1624), both in isolated attestations. Compare slightly earlier polyandrion n.In α. forms only attested as an expedient rhyme in translations of the Leonine epitaph on the tomb of Ethelbert, at the monastery of St Augustine, Canterbury, which read (according to 17th-cent. historians) ‘Rex Ethelbertus hic clauditur in Poliandro, Fana pians certus Christo meat absque Meandro’. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (pǫliˌæ·ndəɹ) /pɒlɪˈændə(r)/.
Obsolete. rare.
1. A tomb, a grave.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]
buriels854
througheOE
burianOE
graveOE
lairc1000
lair-stowc1000
lich-restc1000
pitOE
grass-bedOE
buriness1175
earth housec1200
sepulchrec1200
tombc1300
lakec1320
buriala1325
monumenta1325
burying-place1382
resting placea1387
sepulturea1387
beda1400
earth-beda1400
longhousea1400
laystow1452
lying1480
delfa1500
worms' kitchen?a1500
bier1513
laystall1527
funeral?a1534
lay-bed1541
restall1557
cellarc1560
burying-grave1599
pit-hole1602
urn1607
cell1609
hearse1610
polyandrum1627
requietory1631
burial-place1633
mortuary1654
narrow cell1686
ground-sweat1699
sacred place1728
narrow house1792
plot1852
narrow bed1854
α.
1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iii. viii. 238 King Ethelbert lyeth here Clos'd in this Polyander For building Churches sure he goes To Christ without Maeander.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 241 Ethelbert lieth here closde in this Polyander.
a1684 T. Staveley Hist. Churches Eng. (1712) xv. 255 Famous King Ethelbert lies here, Clos'd in this Poliander [etc.].
β. 1787 S. Pegge Sylloge Inscriptions Eng. Churches 7 The word Polyandrum or Polyandrium, which signifies originally Cœmiterium, but is here used for a tomb or sepulchre of a single person, as it often was in ages.
2. = polyandrion n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] > for the war dead
polyandrionc1612
polyandruma1661
war cemetery1895
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > common grave
polyandrionc1612
polyandruma1661
plague pit1841
mass grave1895
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Warw. 121 Then each Church-yard was indeed a Polyandrum, so that the Dead might seem to Justle one another for room therein.
1886 W. Stubbs Lect. Stud. Mod. & Medieval Hist. viii. 177 The great poliandrum or cemetery of S. Nicolas, in which 24,000 men had been buried in one year during the third Crusade.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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