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- noun Plural form of
lachrymatory .
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Examples
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_ -- In many ancient places of sepulture we find long narrow phials which are called lachrymatories, and are supposed to have been receptacles for tears: can you inform me on what authority this supposition rests?
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The peasants, in digging, have likewise found many urns, lachrymatories, and sepulchral stones, with epitaphs, which are now dispersed among different convents and private houses.
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This, possibly the remains of lachrymatories, was very different from the modern bottle-green, which resembles the old Roman.
The Land of Midian 2003
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This, possibly the remains of lachrymatories, was very different from the modern bottle-green, which resembles the old
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Among a great number of lachrymatories and various other vessels in the British Museum, there is
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834
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The revolution has swept away every human being in the character of a nun; but the director of the manufactory shewed me, with great civility, some relics of old crosses, rings, veils, lachrymatories, &c. which had been taken from the crypt I had recently visited.
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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_tesserae_, with the pottery, tiles, coins, lachrymatories, sepulchral urns, etc., excavated from time to time in and about the church, are clear indications of an important Roman settlement.
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Archies will maintain a barrage along the far side, to keep them from breaking away to Smithson's moor (a poor sportsman, Smithson; uses lachrymatories.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917 Various
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"The poorest of the sepulchres is certain to contain (in Greece) at least a few of these beautiful vases, the lachrymatories, &c.
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