"mausolæan" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1654, Richard Whitlock, quotee, “ΖΩΟΤΟΜΙΑ, or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English; briefly anatomizing the Living by the Dead. With an Usefull Detection of the Mountebanks of both Sexes. […] ”, in The Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany, […], London: […] John Wilson, published 1830, page 139:",
          "text": "Bookes are not onely Titles on their Authors Monuments, but Epitaphs preserving their memories, be they good, or bad, beyond short lived pyramids, or mausolæan piles of stone.",
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          "ref": "1673, [Jean Puget,] le Sieur de la Serre, “The Paragraphs, (So comprized in the Emblems) giving subject to the Author’s Discourses following”, in T[homas] Cary, transl., The Mirrour Which Flatters Not. Concerning the Contempt of the World, or the Meditation of Death; of Philip King of Macedon, Saladine, Adrian, and Alexander the Great, London: […] E. T. and R. H. for R. Thrale, stanza III:",
          "text": "Adrian ſlights Triumphal glory, / In the Grave founds his prime ſtory, / Before all pomp he doth prefer / His Mauſolæan Sepulcher.",
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          "ref": "1682, “A Brief and Summary Table of the Chiefest Things Contained in This History”, in Lithgow’s Nineteen Years Travels Through the Most Eminent Places in the Habitable World, London: […] John Wright, […] and Thomas Passinger […]:",
          "text": "The Mauſolæan Tomb at Halicarnaſſus in Caria.",
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          "ref": "1693, Nahum Tate, “The Widow”, in The Character of an Accomplish’d Virgin, Wife, and Widow, page 17:",
          "text": "Now to the Pomp of Sorrow turn your Eyes, / And see the Mausolæan Structure riſe: / A Fabrick towring with ſuch vaſt extent, / It ſeems a Mountain, not a Monument.",
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          "ref": "1695, N[ahum] Tate, Mausolæum: A Funeral Poem on Our Late Gracious Sovereign Queen Mary, of Blessed Memory, London: […] B. Aylmer, […]. And W. Rogers, […]. And R. Baldwin, […], page 2:",
          "text": "A Mausolæan Pile erected high, / Threatning the Temple’s Roof, as That the Sky; / With Starry Lamps and Banners blazing round, / In all the Pageantry of Death is crown’d.",
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          "ref": "1697, John Prince, “The Epistle Dedicatory”, in Danmonii Orientales Illustres: or, The Worthies of Devon. […], London: […] Rees and Curtis, […]; Edward Upham, […]; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], published 1810, page xix:",
          "text": "Whereas your personal actions, which are great and brave, carry your honor round the universe; inscribe your names into the register of eternity; and you thereby raise trophies to your memory, which shall out-cast the mausolæan monument.",
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          "ref": "1702, Cotton Mather, Sal Gentium. The Fourth Book of the New-English History. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Parkhurst, page 222:",
          "text": "For tho’ Times Teeth Mauſolæan Monuments deface, / They’ll never gnaw thy Name which with the Stars has place.",
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          "ref": "1705, [Nahum] Tate, The Triumph, or Warriours Welcome: A Poem on the Glorious Successes of the Last Year. With the Ode for New-Year’s Day., London: […] J. Rawlins for J. Holland, page 17:",
          "text": "At Home we’ll raiſe a Mausolæan Pile, / To drown (Ah! pious Grief!) Britannia’s Iſle.",
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          "ref": "1785, William Cowper, The Task, a Poem, in Six Books, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, page 190:",
          "text": "Some have amuſed the dull ſad years of life, / Life ſpent in indolence, and therefore ſad, / With ſchemes of monumental fame, and ſought / By pyramids and mausolæan pomp, / Short-lived themſelves, t’ immortalize their bones.",
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          "ref": "1808 (published), A Most Pleasant, Fruitful, and Witty Work of the Best State of a Public Weal, and of the New Isle Called Utopia, volume II, London: […] William Bulmer, […] for William Miller, […], pages 294–295:",
          "text": "It is not then eulogiums, panegyrick orations, dirges, epitaphs, heralds, mourners, obelisks, obsequies, or mausolæan monuments, so well as their own coins wherein they are effigiated, can eternize princes.",
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          "ref": "1828 (published), The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King James the First, His Royal Consort, Family, and Court, volume I, London: […] J. B. Nichols, page 332:",
          "text": "The Mausolæan tombe, / The sixteene curious gates in Rome, / Which times preferre, / Both past and present, / Neroe’s Theater, / That in one day was all gilt ore;",
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          "ref": "1996 (published), The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, page 151:",
          "text": "And let my body want a Sepulchre, if my soule does not more honour that Bodleian Monument, then all the Triumphal Chariots of the living, than the Mausolæan, Mogoll, or Memphian magnificence for the dead, or any other Royall or Imperiall interments.",
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          "ref": "1654, Richard Whitlock, quotee, “ΖΩΟΤΟΜΙΑ, or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English; briefly anatomizing the Living by the Dead. With an Usefull Detection of the Mountebanks of both Sexes. […] ”, in The Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany, […], London: […] John Wilson, published 1830, page 139:",
          "text": "Bookes are not onely Titles on their Authors Monuments, but Epitaphs preserving their memories, be they good, or bad, beyond short lived pyramids, or mausolæan piles of stone.",
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          "ref": "1673, [Jean Puget,] le Sieur de la Serre, “The Paragraphs, (So comprized in the Emblems) giving subject to the Author’s Discourses following”, in T[homas] Cary, transl., The Mirrour Which Flatters Not. Concerning the Contempt of the World, or the Meditation of Death; of Philip King of Macedon, Saladine, Adrian, and Alexander the Great, London: […] E. T. and R. H. for R. Thrale, stanza III:",
          "text": "Adrian ſlights Triumphal glory, / In the Grave founds his prime ſtory, / Before all pomp he doth prefer / His Mauſolæan Sepulcher.",
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          "ref": "1682, “A Brief and Summary Table of the Chiefest Things Contained in This History”, in Lithgow’s Nineteen Years Travels Through the Most Eminent Places in the Habitable World, London: […] John Wright, […] and Thomas Passinger […]:",
          "text": "The Mauſolæan Tomb at Halicarnaſſus in Caria.",
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          "ref": "1693, Nahum Tate, “The Widow”, in The Character of an Accomplish’d Virgin, Wife, and Widow, page 17:",
          "text": "Now to the Pomp of Sorrow turn your Eyes, / And see the Mausolæan Structure riſe: / A Fabrick towring with ſuch vaſt extent, / It ſeems a Mountain, not a Monument.",
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          "text": "A Mausolæan Pile erected high, / Threatning the Temple’s Roof, as That the Sky; / With Starry Lamps and Banners blazing round, / In all the Pageantry of Death is crown’d.",
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          "text": "Whereas your personal actions, which are great and brave, carry your honor round the universe; inscribe your names into the register of eternity; and you thereby raise trophies to your memory, which shall out-cast the mausolæan monument.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1702, Cotton Mather, Sal Gentium. The Fourth Book of the New-English History. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Parkhurst, page 222:",
          "text": "For tho’ Times Teeth Mauſolæan Monuments deface, / They’ll never gnaw thy Name which with the Stars has place.",
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          "ref": "1705, [Nahum] Tate, The Triumph, or Warriours Welcome: A Poem on the Glorious Successes of the Last Year. With the Ode for New-Year’s Day., London: […] J. Rawlins for J. Holland, page 17:",
          "text": "At Home we’ll raiſe a Mausolæan Pile, / To drown (Ah! pious Grief!) Britannia’s Iſle.",
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          "text": "Some have amuſed the dull ſad years of life, / Life ſpent in indolence, and therefore ſad, / With ſchemes of monumental fame, and ſought / By pyramids and mausolæan pomp, / Short-lived themſelves, t’ immortalize their bones.",
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          "text": "It is not then eulogiums, panegyrick orations, dirges, epitaphs, heralds, mourners, obelisks, obsequies, or mausolæan monuments, so well as their own coins wherein they are effigiated, can eternize princes.",
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          "ref": "1828 (published), The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King James the First, His Royal Consort, Family, and Court, volume I, London: […] J. B. Nichols, page 332:",
          "text": "The Mausolæan tombe, / The sixteene curious gates in Rome, / Which times preferre, / Both past and present, / Neroe’s Theater, / That in one day was all gilt ore;",
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          "ref": "1996 (published), The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, page 151:",
          "text": "And let my body want a Sepulchre, if my soule does not more honour that Bodleian Monument, then all the Triumphal Chariots of the living, than the Mausolæan, Mogoll, or Memphian magnificence for the dead, or any other Royall or Imperiall interments.",
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