Herculaneum
noun
an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: buried along with Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; partially excavated.
Herculanean
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a word derived from
Herculaneum.
Example Sentences
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But, besides love and anticipation, there was a something which made him anxious--a something which once hemmed in and oppressed myself when I came back among the Herculanean antiquities of my own childhood.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
Can there be aught finer than to look at these ash-buried, deep-sunk, Herculanean ruins of childhood, now dug up and in the open air?
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
The gesture is found in Herculanean bronzes, with obviously the same signification.
In the papyri of Hyperides there are no stops at all, in the Herculanean rolls exceeding few: Codd.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
See article on "Herculanean Papyri," in Edinburgh Review, October, 1862.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
