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Menhir :: Menhir (n.) A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe..

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

Capricorn :: Capricorn (n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish..

Lotus :: Lotus (n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments..

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

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

Deface :: Deface (v. t.) To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record..

Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc..

Kistvaen :: Kistvaen (n.) A Celtic monument, commonly known as a dolmen..

Lapidary :: Lapidary (a.) Of or pertaining to monumental inscriptions; as, lapidary adulation..

Stele :: Stela (n.) A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc..

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..

Trilithon :: Trilithon (n.) A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts..

Base :: Base (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration..

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..

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..

Tomb :: Tomb (n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.

Imperishable :: Imperishable (a.) Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown..

Sacellum :: Sacellum (n.) A small monumental chapel in a church.

Monumentally :: Monumentally (adv.) By way of memorial.

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