sarcophagusses

English

Noun

sarcophagusses

1. (rare) plural of sarcophagus
   • 1760 August, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XXX, London: […] D. Henry, and R. Cave, […], page 363, column 1:

     An old ſepulchral apartment without the porta præneſtina, (or maggiore) about four miles from Rome, in which were four ſarcophaguſſes, adorned with very curious relievos, two of them large and two ſmall: […]

   • 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book IV. Rome.] Chap[ter] III.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 184:

     The tombs, decorated by the wonders of the fine arts, do not present death under a formidable aspect. It is not altogether like the ancients, who engraved dances and games upon their sarcophagusses; but the mind is abstracted from the contemplation of a coffin, by the chefs-d’œuvres of genius.

   • 1812 May, Jedidiah Morse, The American Universal Geography; or A View of the Present State of All the Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the Known World, 6th edition, volume II, Boston, Mass.: […] Thomas & Andrews, […], page 433:

     Most of the catacombs contain 7 sarcophagusses, 3 on each side, and 1 at the farther end.

   • 1817, Charles Campbell, “From Aix-la-Chapelle to Frankfort—Description of Cologne—Bonn—Coblentz—Mausoleum of General Marceau—Baths of Wisbaden—Limburg—Excursion to Seltzer—Frankfort—Mentz”, in The Traveller’s Complete Guide through Belgium & Holland; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], pages 143–144:

     In and about the choir are several remarkable monuments; one, in copper, of the Archbishop Conrad Hochstaden; the silver coffin of St. Engelbert, curiously chased, and the marble sarcophagusses of the Electors Adolphus III and Anthony.

   • 1876, Heinrich Heine, translated by Thomas Selby Egan, Atta Troll and Other Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 246:

     But the holy three kings who formerly lay / So still and never made fusses, / Here they were sitting bolt upright / Atop of their sarcophagusses.

   • 1900 September, “Recent Excavations in Egypt”, in Biblia. A Monthly Journal of Oriental Research in Archæology, Ethnology, Literature, Religion, History, Epigraphy, Geography, Languages, etc., volume XIV, number 6, Meriden, Conn., page 178:

     Most all the texts were taken from the pyramids of Memphis; the figures are the same found on the sarcophagusses of the XIth and XIIth dynasties.

   • 1911, Katharine Holland Brown, Uncertain Irene, New York, N.Y.: Duffield & Company, page 209:

     “Come along to the sarcophagusses, Philura,” entreated Jerry, feebly.

   • 1916 April 8, The National Provisioner, volume 54, number 15, page 36, column 2:

     This particular kind of cheese is left on the tree until so ripe that it is ready to fall off, when it is picked and ripened some more until it has acquired the required asafetida-sulphuretted-hydrogen “bouquet,” when it is ready for the sarcophagusses who patronize Bumwurst’s.

   • 1928, Hassan Ali Shah, translated by John Anthony, The Story of Hassan (Hassan Ali Shah): A Novel of India Written by Himself and Englished by John Anthony, London: Nisbet and Co. Ltd. […], page 229:

     He became clerk to a firm of auctioneers, and used to go round sticking labels on to Egyptian mummies, and sarcophagusses, and that sort of thing. (What did you say? said Ginger.—Sarcophagusses, said Williams.—Thank you, said Ginger.)

   • 1929, A Practical and Illustrated Guide to Ghent: With a Map, A. de Boeck, pages 37–38:

     The choir and chapels all around are magnificent, with the ciseled marble of the altars and of the sarcophagusses, the brilliant gold of the tabernacle and grating, the brass of the candelabrums and monstrances.

   • 1937, Frances E[lizabeth] Clarke, compiler, Cats—and Cats: Great Cat Stories of Our Day, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 170:

     “Yes, mam,” he went on fluently, “I reckon you know more about the Temples and priests and sarcophagusses and sacred Temple cats than I do. […]”

   • 1964, Leszek Dabrowski, “Preliminary Report on the Reconstruction Works of the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el Bahari”, in Annales du service des antiquités de l’Égypte [Annals of the Egyptian Antiquities Service], volume LVIII, Cairo: Organisme Général des Imprimeries Gouvernementales, page 44 [8]:

     A part from these in the upper layer were discovered such objects as fragments of sarcophagusses, […]

   • 1970 July 11, Middle East News Economic Weekly, volume 9, number 28, page 52:

     The French mission discovered a small cemetery dating back to the New Kingdom, a tomb containing three sarcophagusses, two red pottery jars dating back to pre-historic times, among other discoveries.

   • 1988 August, Pete Gerrard, “Pete Gerrard’s Adventure Trail”, in Dragon User, Dragon Publications, page 24, column 1:

     Pyramids and sarcophagi (or is that sarcophagusses? Makes them sound like some sort of aquatic mammal, a herd of sarcophagusses approaching the starboard bow, Cap’n) abound on my latest travels abroad, and one cannot help but wonder what Binder would have made of it all.

   • 1993, Kevin Michael Parker, Making Art Historical: Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Alois Riegl, Erwin Panofsky, University of California, Santa Cruz, page 137:

     In front of the monks are now three sarcophagusses.

   • 2022, Rufus Bird, “[The Georgian Court] The Princes and their Apartments, 1790s–1809”, in St James’s Palace: From Leper Hospital to Royal Court, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 164, column 1:

     The chief glory of the dining room was probably two large sideboards, with open mahogany ‘Sarcophagusses’ (wine-coolers) to stand underneath (£31 18s).