sarcophagused
sarcophagused adjective: enclosed in a sarcophagus. Also the simple past and past participle of sarcophagus.
Adjective
sarcophagused (not comparable)
- Enclosed in a sarcophagus.
- 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.1862 April, [Dinah Maria Mulock], “Waiting”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume V, number 30, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 464
- Was it the Mummy of King Cheops—still sarcophagused in the labyrinthine recesses of the star-y-pointing Pyramid, to mock generations of Egyptologists, past, present, and to come—that had all at once found a tongue within his desiccated jaws?1876 January 8, “Preface”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume 69, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., […], →OCLC, pages iii–iv
Also used as
sarcophagused is also the simple past and past participle of sarcophagus.
Forms of sarcophagused
| alternative form (rare) | sarcophagussed |
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Origin of sarcophagused
From sarcophagus + -ed.
Questions about sarcophagused
- What does sarcophagused mean?
- Sarcophagused means enclosed in a sarcophagus.
- What part of speech is sarcophagused?
- Sarcophagused is an adjective.
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