sarcophagus

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A stonen coffin, often with its exterior inscribed, or decorated with sculpture.

   “[T]his (venter impiorum inſaturabilis [the insatiable belly of the wicked]) in foure & tvventie houres conſumes many carkaſſes of Fiſhes and Fovvles, and generally tvvice a day all the fleſh therein interred; ſo true a Sarcophagus is the belly: […]”

2. isim The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
3. isim A type of wine cooler (“a piece of equipment used to keep wine chilled”) shaped like a sarcophagus (sense 1).

   “A George VI mahogany sarcophagus wine cooler, with nulled mouldings and brass ring handles, the turned stem on leaf carved and moulded legs and brass castors.”

4. isim A kind of limestone used by the Ancient Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

   “His Entrails are like the Sarcophagus, that devours dead Bodies in a ſmall Space, […]”

5. fiil To enclose (a corpse, etc.) in a sarcophagus (noun sense 1).

   “All waiting: the new-coffined dead, / The handful of mere dust that lies / Sarcophagused in stone and lead / Under the weight of centuries: / Knight, cardinal, bishop, abbess mild, / With last week's buried year-old child.”