Mycerinus

American  

[mis-uh-rahy-nuhs] / ˌmɪs əˈraɪ nəs /

noun

1. king of ancient Egypt c2600–2570 b.c.: builder of the third great pyramid at El Giza.

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Example Sentences

With their neat figures and confident smiles, the Old Kingdom ruler Mycerinus and his queen, in a renowned carved portrait, looked like friends of my parents arriving for cocktails, straight from a spaceship.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2010

Herbert W. Paul, writing of Mycerinus, declares that no such verse has been written in England since Wordsworth's Laodamia; and continues, "The poem abounds in single lines of haunting charm."

From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew

For Mycerinus either never left or else returned to the religion of the Egyptians.

From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

In Obermann Once More, in Thyrsis, in The Scholar Gipsy, in Mycerinus, in Resignation, in the lines To a Gipsy Child, and in numerous other pieces we see the workings of this critical spirit.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

The pyramid of Cephren was slightly smaller, and that of Mycerinus still more so, compensated for by a casing in granite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various