Necropolitic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Necropolitic is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to a necropolis.
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a necropolis.
Example Sentences
At this stage of her life Prudence is paying more attention to what she calls necropolitic architecture.
The earliest settlement, according to them, corresponds to a race of cave-dwellers, and the later one to a necropolitic culture.
The Necropolitic part of the city was terminated on one side by a grand street, that extended from the gate which went under that name to the gate of Canopus, which is said to have been an hundred feet wide, and had, doubtless, in it many magnificent buildings, as sufficiently appears from the granite pillars still remaining in two or three parts.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include necropolitical, necropolitan, necrological, necrobiotic, necrologic, necrochemical.
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