What's the difference between sarcophagous and sarcophagus?

Sarcophagous


Definition:

  • (a.) Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The animal, maintained in a sarcophage exposing the tumour, was immersed in degassed water ensuring the interface between the tumour and the 1 MHz transducer.
  • (2) The in vitro secretory product of larval Sarcophage bullata ring glands has been identified as 2beta, 3beta, 14alpha, 22R, 25-pentahydroxy-5beta-cholest-7-en-6-one (alpha-ecdysone).
  • (3) Botulotoxin was detected at high concentrations in sarcophagic fly larvae of Calliphora vomitoria and Lucilia sericata which were collected in bird cadavers, but it was not found in different components of the aquatic environment (water, submersed vegetation, phytoplankton, zooplankton, Gastropoda, Crustacea, Oligochaeta, larvae of Odonata, Chironomidae and Ceratopogonidae).

Sarcophagus


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
  • (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.
  • (n.) A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ancient cultures of Babylon, Jericho, and Egypt used "art-eyes" in mummies, sarcophagus lids, and statues; they were made from precious stones, silver, gold, and copper as a symbol of light and life in their religious beliefs.
  • (2) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
  • (3) The second mummy was a 18-year-old young woman, 800-700 b. C. From the inscriptions on the sarcophagus name, family and living circumstances could be found.
  • (4) Her bed is made, as is our son's upstairs, though because he's been gone only a month or two, his room is more complete, like Captain Scott's hut or the chamber at the centre of a pyramid, minus the sarcophagus.
  • (5) In 1891 mummified remains were identified as those of Pizarro and placed in a sarcophagus on public exhibition.
  • (6) What he saw in those years, he says, appalled him: young men dying for want of the simplest information about exposure to radiation; the wide-scale falsification of medical histories by the Soviet army and the disappearance of people's records so the state would not have to compensate them; the wholesale looting of evacuated houses and abandoned churches; the haste and carelessness with which the concrete "sarcophagus" was erected over the stricken reactor; and, above all, the horror of seeing land almost twice the size of Britain contaminated, with thousands of villages made uninhabitable.
  • (7) This time the team is applying to the Home Office for an exhumation licence for a lead-lined stone sarcophagus, which they believe holds the undisturbed remains of Sir William Moton, believed to have been buried at Grey Friars in 1362.
  • (8) But for sheer technical virtuosity the most astonishing exhibit is a 3rd-century sarcophagus, carved from a single block of stone, showing the Romans fighting the Ostrogoths.
  • (9) It was finished, after Sarah insisted on cheaper materials and lower wages, long after the Duke's death in 1722, including a chapel with his towering sarcophagus dwarfing the altar.
  • (10) At this rate it may well be my sarcophagus.” Homeowners have a right to paint their houses any colour they like, under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 , as long as the property is not a listed building.
  • (11) Photograph: Oskar Reinhart Foundation Son of Nazi governor returns art stolen from Poland during second world war Read more Nine have been restituted – including Susanna, a sculpture by Reinhold Begas, which was found in Berlin’s National Gallery; August Gaul’s Resting Lion from 1903, also found in Berlin; a Roman child’s sarcophagus from the end of the second century AD; and Lady with Red Blouse, a pastel drawing of Mosse’s sister Emilie by Adolph Menzel, found in Winterthur, Switzerland.
  • (12) Similarly, whatever the atmosphere in the chamber, the only thing that matters is inside the glass sarcophagus.
  • (13) But for an industry reliant on E£100 (£9) entry tickets to the Valley of the Kings (plus extra to see Tutankhamun’s mummy and gilded sarcophagus), this is a disaster.
  • (14) As to reactor no 4, the concrete sarcophagus that hides its wrecked, exposed, radioactive core is now crumbling and work has started on a replacement – although Ukraine has made it clear that it will need international assistance to ensure the project's successful completion.

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