Definition of Catacombs

1. Noun. (plural of catacomb) ¹

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Definition of Catacombs

1. catacomb [n] - See also: catacomb

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catacombs

catachrestic
catachrestical
catachrestically
catachronobiology
cataclasm
cataclastic
cataclinal
cataclysm
cataclysmal
cataclysmic
cataclysmically
cataclysmist
cataclysmists
cataclysms
catacomb
catacombs (current term)
catacorner
catacoustic
catacoustics
catacrotic
catacrotic pulse
catacrotism
catadicrotic
catadicrotic pulse
catadicrotism
catadidymus
catadioptric
catadioptrics
catadromous
catafalco

Literary usage of Catacombs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Among the scholarly Protestant writers on the catacombs the following deserve credit: PIPER, Einleitung in die monumentale Theologie (Gotha, 1867); MÜLLER. ..."

2. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1906)
"So far as concerns the frescos of the Roman catacombs, the treatment is of necessity incomplete. The reproductions which have hitherto been made of the ..."

3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"The catacombs of Syracuse are more spacious, bettor preserved, ... The catacombs of Paris are simply the receptacle of the bones of a number of the ..."

4. Literature of Theology: A Classified Bibliography of Theological and General by John Fletcher Hurst (1896)
"The catacombs of Rome : as illustrating the Church of the First Three ... The Church in the catacombs : a Description of the Principal Church of Rome. ..."

5. Italy by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1909)
"This interval is satisfactorily filled up by the catacombs, ... Most travellers will be satisfied with a "visit to the catacombs of St. Calixtus, ..."

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