Definition of Tumulary

1. pertaining to a tumulus [adj] - See also: tumulus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumulary

tumphies
tumphy
tumpier
tumpiest
tumping
tumpline
tumplines
tumps
tumpy
tums
tumshie
tumshies
tumtums
tumular
tumulary (current term)
tumuli
tumulose
tumulosities
tumulosity
tumulous
tumult
tumulted
tumulting
tumults
tumultuarily
tumultuariness
tumultuary
tumultuation
tumultuations

Literary usage of Tumulary

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

1. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"And this is, if I mistake not, the secret meaning of the tumulary inscription, so simple for the initiate : " To the gods manes who lived. ..."

2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"It is customary for the women to tear their faces, to make deep cuts in their legs and arms, and to water these tumulary piles with streams of blood. ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1799)
"In reading this tumulary composition of a critic, who was himself so fastidious in his remarks on the productions of others 1 in compositions of this kind, ..."

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