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Meaning of "sarcophagal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SARCOPHAGAL

sarcophagal  [sɑːˈkɒfəɡəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SARCOPHAGAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sarcophagal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SARCOPHAGAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sarcophagal

Sarcophagus

A sarcophagus is a box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and displayed above ground, though it may also be buried. The word "sarcophagus" comes from the Greek σάρξ sarx meaning "flesh", and φαγεῖν phagein meaning "to eat", hence sarcophagus means "flesh-eating"; from the phrase lithos sarkophagos. Since lithos is Greek for stone, lithos sarcophagos means "flesh-eating stone". The word also came to refer to a particular kind of limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses interred within it.

Definition of sarcophagal in the English dictionary

The definition of sarcophagal in the dictionary is related to or depicted on sarcophagi. Other definition of sarcophagal is tending to devour or consume flesh.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SARCOPHAGAL


angle
ˈæŋɡəl
apologal
əˈpɒləɡəl
astragal
ˈæstrəɡəl
eagle
ˈiːɡəl
egal
´iːɡəl
Google
ˈɡuːɡəl
illegal
ɪˈliːɡəl
jungle
ˈdʒʌŋɡəl
legal
ˈliːɡəl
McGonagall
məˈɡɒnəɡəl
peregal
ˈpɛrəɡəl
Portugal
ˈpɔːtjʊɡəl
regal
ˈriːɡəl
septifragal
sɛpˈtɪfrəɡəl
single
ˈsɪŋɡəl
spiegel
ˈspiːɡəl
struggle
ˈstrʌɡəl
toggle
ˈtɒɡəl
triangle
ˈtraɪˌæŋɡəl
Vogel
ˈvəʊɡəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SARCOPHAGAL

sarcolemmal
sarcolemmata
sarcology
sarcoma
sarcomata
sarcomatoid
sarcomatoses
sarcomatosis
sarcomatous
sarcomere
sarconet
sarcophagi
sarcophagous
sarcophagus
sarcoplasm
sarcoplasmic
sarcoptic
sarcosomal
sarcosome
sarcous

WORDS THAT END LIKE SARCOPHAGAL

algal
antifungal
Bengal
centrifugal
conjugal
Donegal
frugal
fungal
gal
madrigal
mangal
paralegal
plagal
prodigal
Senegal
tragal
vagal
vasovagal
Warangal
West Bengal

Synonyms and antonyms of sarcophagal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sarcophagal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SARCOPHAGAL

Find out the translation of sarcophagal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sarcophagal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sarcophagal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

sarcophagal
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sarcophagal
570 millions of speakers

English

sarcophagal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sarcophagal
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

sarcophagal
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sarcophagal
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sarcophagal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sarcophagal
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sarcophagal
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sarcophagal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sarcophagal
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sarcophagal
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sarcophagal
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sarcophagal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sarcophagal
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sarcophagal
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शंकराचाल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sarcophagal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sarcophagal
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sarcophagal
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sarcophagal
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sarcophagal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sarcophagal
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sarcophagal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sarcophagal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sarcophagal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sarcophagal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SARCOPHAGAL»

The term «sarcophagal» is barely ever used and occupies the 208.586 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SARCOPHAGAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sarcophagal» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sarcophagal» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sarcophagal

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SARCOPHAGAL»

Discover the use of sarcophagal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sarcophagal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reminiscences of Syria and the Hold Land
of fifteen feet, surrounded by a terrace, elevated about two feet above the floor, with six sarcophagal chambers, two of which C.C. about eight feet long and four feet wide, with channels in the centre, and having an apartment attached to it of ...
Elers Napier, 1847
2
Time-fetishes: The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence
And that is why I believe this sarcophagal sculpture from the second century A.d. (figure 2) is so important as an allegory of another beginning, the trace of a Heraclitean worldview, an Ovidian world-image, that somehow remained too esoteric, ...
Ned Lukacher, 1998
3
Stephen King Goes to the Movies
The door to the bedroom had become the door to some sarcophagal inner chamber. And to his left, where the picture of the fruit had been, the wall was bulging outward toward him, splitting open in those long cracks that gaped like mouths, ...
Stephen King, 2009
4
Reminiscences of Syria and Fragments of a Journal and ...
of fifteen feet, surrounded by a terrace, elevated about two feet above the floor, with six sarcophagal chambers, two of which C.C. about eight feet long and four feet wide, with channels in the centre, and having an apartment attached to it of ...
Lieut.-colonel E. Napier, 1843
5
Veneficus - Stones of the Chosen
There is a powerful legend that says one day these raging mists will break through the sarcophagal barriers that bind them to the mist and sweep across the earth in a screaming mass of undiluted hatred. Many thousands of years ago vene- ...
Chris Page, 2008
6
Neural Network Learning and Expert Systems
The actual knowledge base for the sarcophagal example is given in figure 14.8. In this file the connectionist network of figure 14.4 is represented in matrix form, with one row being used for each intermediate or output cell in the final network.
Stephen I. Gallant, 1993
7
Universitas
Hundreds of sarcophagi of the Constantinian period support a blossoming, a novel type of spreading of Christian sarcophagal sculpture. Works which are outstanding from the formal and thematic points of view become relatively rare.
‎1967
8
Almost Human: A Journey Into the World of Baboons
A week later I lay back in the clear hot bathwater and contemplated Africa. The sarcophagal bathtub was almost six feet long; I had to point my toes to keep my head from slipping under. The bathtub was one of the many surprises that first week ...
Shirley C. Strum, 1987
9
Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in ...
Within that world, the entire dramatis personae of the blessed, resplendent with shadow, would find themselves absorbed — as if obliterated — within the uniform plane of the sarcophagal panel, and the panel, in turn, would be reduced to the ...
Gustaf Sobin, 2009
10
Cell Reproduction: In honor of Daniel Mazia
27—42. Springer-Verlag, New York. Biochim. Biophys. Wise, G. E., and Goldstein , L. (1973). J. Cell Biol. 56, 129. Zieve, G., and Penman, S. (1976). Cell 8, l9. EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA IN POLYTENE NUCLEI OF SARCOPHAGAl Hewson ...
Ellen Dirksen, 2012

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SARCOPHAGAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sarcophagal is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'2001: A Space Odyssey': Read THR's 1968 Review
Astronauts Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood and crew, deep-frozen in sarcophagal hibernacalums, are dispatched to Jupiter after the strange monolith, buried by the ... «Hollywood Reporter, Nov 14»
2
Critical Round-Up: The September 11 Memorial Museum
The dark floors and austere sarcophagal aura make me wistful for the light above, but the architects have taken care to lead visitors gently into the depths. «ArchDaily, May 14»
3
Getting to 9/11 How a museum's creators memorialized our …
The dark floors and austere sarcophagal aura make me wistful for the light above, but the architects have taken care to lead visitors gently into the depths. «New York Magazine, May 14»
4
The Right's Scandal Hypocrisy
The ease of movement from sarcophagal stonewalling to high dudgeon is a peculiarly right-wing trait, because it's the right that started the modern-day sense ... «Daily Beast, May 13»
5
The Big Easy's Hometown Paper
And after a lifetime of the magisterial NYT and the downright sarcophagal WaPo, it didn't take us long at all to dote on the Times-Picayune's stubborn, scrappy ... «The American Prospect, May 12»
6
'Addams Family' a little too normal, but you'll laugh
... Morticia, played with slinky menace by Broadway vet Sara Gettelfinger, shimmies and shakes in her sarcophagal gown without a single wardrobe malfunction. «Plain Dealer, Apr 12»
7
Resurgent Star of the Day (and Year?): Justin Timberlake
Not as much as hearing Kanye's sarcophagal musings, anyway, especially with that damn horus again. You also wouldn't mind dressing like the ... «Actress Archives, Jan 11»
8
Property in London: No half-measures for the full-blown, push-button …
A huge Ralph Lauren bed dominates the bedroom area and a softly sculptural, pleasingly sarcophagal tub takes your breath away in the bathroom. Nudity itself ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Sarcophagal [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sarcophagal>. Apr 2024 ».
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