medal of creation
now historical
noun
(A rhetorical term for) a fossil, likened in appearance to an image stamped in relief on a medal and hence taken as commemorating a period in the history of the earth.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in James Parkinson (1755–1824), surgeon and palaeontologist. After post-classical Latin nummus memorialis.
- seemingly
- seemliness
- seemly
- seen
- See of Rome
- see one's way clear to do (or doing) something
- see (or tell or spot) something a mile off
- see (or think) fit
- see over
- seep
- seepage
- seer
- see red
- seersucker
- see-saw
- see sense (or reason)
- see service
- see someone coming
- see someone damned first
- see someone off
- see someone out
- see someone right
- see someone/thing out of (or from) the corner of one's eye
- see someone through
- see something coming