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sarcophagus : 英英辞書
Sarcoph"agus
(), n.; pl. L. Sarcophagi (), E. Sarcophaguses (). [L., fr. Gr. sarkofa°gos, properly, eating flesh; sa°rx, sa°rkos, flesh + fagei^n to eat. Cf. Sarcasm.]
1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland.
2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.



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