Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
monument .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Something to
preserve memory ; areminder ; amonument . - noun obsolete, by extension A
mark ,image , orsuperscription ; arecord .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Now, when I asked the driver yesterday the name of a very symmetrical eminence in the midst of the ranges he said it had no name, that it was no mountain -- it was just the 'moniment' of a little ridge, meaning the image, the simulacrum.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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'Aw've gin thee a bad name, owd mon, and they'n tried to hang thee for't; but thaa'll happen do summat some day as they'll tee a medal raand thi neck for, and when thaa'rt deead build thee a moniment.'
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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"Square, have they ordered a moniment yit for Miss Maverick?"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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Peace might see if any one felt to put up a moniment for David; he hadn't an enemy in the world, and he never begredged a dollar when he had it to give, for anything there was going.
"Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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Now Timbs, the grocer an '' aberdashery man, when 'is wife died, he wouldn't let me' ave my own way about the moniment at all.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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There's a town I know of, "and here Mr. Twitt began to laugh, --" wheer ye can't 'ave a moniment put up to your dead folk without' subjectin '' the design to the Town
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889
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Th 'biggest trouble I ha', is settlin 'i' my moind what th 'world' ill do when I turn my toes to th 'daisies, an' how the government'll mak 'up their moinds who shall ha' th 'honor o' payin 'for my moniment.
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"If she wasn't hall right I'd lose my buryin 'and my moniment for nothing," said Hannah, almost in the same breath; and Mr. Powers stared at her, believing that she herself must be a candidate for the lunatic asylum.
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Euen this verse vowd to eternity, shall be thereof immortall moniment: and tell her prayse to all posterity, that may admire such worlds rare wonderment.
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For had the equall heuens so much you graced in this as in the rest, ye mote inuent som heuenly wit, whose verse could haue enchased your glorious name in golden moniment.
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