“cippus”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

cippus

释义

‖ cippus|ˈsɪpəs|
[L. cippus a post, stake, etc.]
1. [as in late L.] The stocks.
1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metam., No justice Lippus, Will seek for to nip us In Cramp-ring or Cippus.1692Coles, Cippus, a pair of Stocks.
2. Arch. ‘A small low column, sometimes without a base or capital, and most frequently bearing an inscription’ (Gwilt).
By the ancients employed as a landmark, a memorial of remarkable events, and esp. as a sepulchral monument.
1708Phillips, Cippus, a Pillar with an Inscription, a Gravestone.1731–1800Bailey.1839De Quincey Wks. (1862) IV. 259 There is, in Ceylon, a granite cippus, or monumental pillar, of immemorial antiquity.1850Art Jrnl. 219 Cippi have been mistaken for altars.1860Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life II. v. 271 The inscription on the cippus placed over the remains of the two children.

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