Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A capstone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The upper or top stone; a stone forming part of a coping.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A stone for coping. See
coping .
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- noun
capstone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination
- noun a stone that forms the top of wall or building
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
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For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.
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On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton, put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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M.E. M. -- "Brother Senior Warden, assemble the brethren, and form a procession, for the purpose of celebrating the copestone."
The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan
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S.W. -- "Is not this the day set apart for the celebration of the copestone, Most Excellent?"
The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan
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These are of various forms, but they are mostly tripods, consisting of a copestone poised upon three other stones, two at the head and one at the foot.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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The supports are rough boulders, the largest masses of stone that could be found or moved; and the copestone is an enormous flat square block, often with cup-shaped hollows carved upon its surface.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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It was reserved to his successor to raise it, as the martyr had predicted it would be raised, even to the copestone.
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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Under this copestone there was a vacant space, varying in size from a foot or two to the height of a man on horseback.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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To bring forth the copestone with shouting and praise.
The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge William Morgan
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