Word Finder - monumental

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In the manner of a monument.

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Large, grand and imposing.

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Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete.

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Relating to monuments.

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Monumental construction.

We were thrilled beyond words, a monumental success.

The monumental records of Egypt are the source of the earliest information on farming.

The principal mineral resource of Vermont is its building and monumental stone, including marble and granite and a small amount of limestone.

They were seated on the type of furniture you're afraid will break, amid a thousand little fig­urines of dancing girls that must have presented a monumental dusting job.

The arm-muscles have been studied in an absolutely exhaustive manner by Fiirbringer, who in his monumental work has tabulated and then scrutinized the chief characters of fourteen selected muscles.

It may be divided into three divisions, upper, lower and middle, each of which is distinguished by special physical features, and has played a conspicuous part in the world's history, retaining to the present day monumental evidence of the races who have lined its banks.

This monumental work seems to date from the close of the Middle Minoan age, but has been re-used for interments at successive periods (Evans, Archaeologic, 1906, p. 136 sqq.).

Granted, what we accomplished was monumental, but coming across a similar situation and duplicating what we were able to do might not occur very often.

The palace contains a picture gallery and collections of natural history and antiquities, and in front of it are two monumental fountains and a monument to the emperor William I.

For this monumental work he had been gathering material for several years before the war.

This perilous expedition, a monumental instance of courage and loyalty, had no substantial result.

The extant fragments and conglomerations of the Sibylline oracles, heathen, Jewish and Christian, were collected, examined, translated and explained by C. Alexandre in a monumental edition full of exemplary learning and acumen.

The tomb of Ahmad Shah is the only attempt at monumental architecture.

The original materials for Henry VIII.'s biography are practically all incorporated in the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII.

Monumental works, such as his statue of Queen Victoria at Winchester and his work at Windsor, may be handed down as his greatest achievements, but judged as art metal-work, his smaller productions, such as the centrepiece presented by the army and navy to Queen Victoria on her Jubilee, have been more important.

But in spite of its defects the Church History is a monumental work, which need only be compared with its continuations by Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, Rufinus and others, to be appreciated at its true worth.

The 14th century is also the period of enriched canopies, of niches and pinnacles and of other details of monumental sculpture reproduced in its seals.

One of the greatest of his publications was the Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), a monumental work, which every student will maintain fully justifies its author's hope that it may bear "a similar relation to the eleventh and twelfth chapters of the Origin of Species as Mr Darwin's Animals and Plants under Domestication bears to the first."

Potthast is chiefly known through his monumental Bibliotheca historica medii aevi (1862), a guide to the sources of European history in the middle ages.

Such are the Ceasoslov, revised by Bishop Kliment of Ramnicu Valcea (1745), the Evhologion (1764), the Katavasiar (1753), The monumental publication of the Mineiu, in 12 folio volumes, by Bishops Kesarie and Filaret of Ramnicu Valcea (1776-80), is equal in im portance if it be not superior to the no less monumental publication of the Lives of Saints, also in 12 huge folio volumes, published under the direction and with the assistance of the metropolitan Veniamin of Moldavia.

Sincai worked for nearly forty years at his monumental History of Rumania, which the Hungarian censor did not allow to be printed on account of its nationalist and anti-Magyar tendencies.

The interior, however, is finely proportioned and exhibits beautiful modern polychrome decorations, numerous pictures and interesting monumental brasses.

Seven years of constant and severe toil (1866-73) were given to the Oxford Icelandic-English Dictionary, incomparably the best guide to classic Icelandic, and a monumental example of single-handed work.

Very durable grey granite has been quarried near Aberdeen for more than 300 years, and blocked and dressed paving "setts," kerb and building stones, and monumental 'and other ornamental work of granite have long been exported from the district to all parts of the world.

To this monument and the one in honour of Washington, Baltimore owes the name " The Monumental City," frequently applied to it.

These rites are found all over the world, and in his monumental work, The Golden Bough, Dr Frazer has traced a host of extant beliefs and practices to this source.

There is a still more monumental collectionthe Carte Paperson Irish affairs in the Bodleian Library, where also the Tanner MSS.

There were also monumental gateways, and the island was protected by a stone quay all round with the necessary staircases, &c., and a Nilometer.

Wisconsin granite is especially suitable for monumental work.

In 1891 the pulpit was moved back and a monumental brass inserted in the floor to indicate the royal vault.

The foundation of the monumental work of his life was laid when he was at Exeter House.

Of his numerous writings in Icelandic, Danish and German, the History of Icelandic Geography is a monumental work.

The encyclopaedic interest in nature, although in White's day culminating in the monumental synthesis of Buffon, was also disappearing before the analytic specialism inaugurated by Linnaeus; yet the catholic interests of the simple naturalist of Selborne fully reappear a century later in the greater naturalist of Down, Charles Darwin.

Baum (1809-1878), and after their death alone, he edited the monumental edition of Calvin's works (38 vols., 1863 ff.).

Mabillon produced in all some twenty folio volumes and as many of lesser size, nearly all works of monumental erudition (the chief are named in the article Maurists).

While getting him back to the house was a monumental achievement, we had no idea if the time or even the date was correct.

That's why they visit birthplaces, places of monumental happenings like battlefields or sites of great tragedies— to absorb a tiny bit of what happened there.

Having crossed the deep valley the monumental east abutment is aligned on a tight 90 degree turn.

Still they paid for this monumental blunder in the biggest fashion, beaten by a VERY poor Portugal on penalties.

Napoleon III commissioned Haussman to create the boulevards of Paris, a truly monumental vision of beauty in the public sphere.

There is still much to surprise the student of monumental brasses in the less visited parts of the English countryside.

Also of interest, the Plaza de Toros Monumental de las Ventas is the worlds biggest bullring.

It can go beyond being the merely commemorative or monumental, or a sort of expression of nostalgia.

This monumental work is the best study ever made of a submarine volcano eruption of the type to which Santorin belongs.

Gogol, described as " the Russian Dickens ", wrote this monumental farce about human greed and folly in 1835.

Throughout the empire, monumental sculptors continued to draw upon the heightened diction of classical figuration.

A monumental folly of the highest order which would have seen any respectable company or trade union chairman vacate his seat.

Examples were given of family trees constructed purely from monumental inscriptions.

To take a local example the Essex Society for Family History has transcribed the monumental inscriptions from many churchyards including ours.

His reserved judgment, a monumental judgment running to some 145 pages, was handed down on a date in February 2005.