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Monumentally :: Monumentally (adv.) By means of monuments.

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments..

Stone :: Stone (n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.

Mausoleum :: Mausoleum (n.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument..

Obliterate :: Obliterate (v. t.) To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity.

Tope :: Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic..

Effigy :: Effigy (n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits..

Monolith :: Monolith (n.) A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument..

Lapidary :: Lapidary (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of cutting stones, or engraving on stones, either gems or monuments; as, lapidary ornamentation..

Monumental :: Monumental (a.) Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription..

Epitaph :: Epitaph (n.) A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis..

Record :: Record (v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

Feroher :: Feroher (n.) A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in Babylon, Nineveh, etc..

Pillar :: Pillar (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament..

Monument :: Monument (n.) 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..

Archaeology :: Archaeology (n.) The science or study of antiquities, esp. prehistoric antiquities, such as the remains of buildings or monuments of an early epoch, inscriptions, implements, and other relics, written manuscripts, etc..

Cartouch :: Cartouch (n.) An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the name of a sovereign..

Monument :: Monument (n.) Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial..

Cross :: Cross (n.) A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London..

Vandal :: Vandal (n.) One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature..

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