Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or connected with a choragus, or the liturgy called a choragy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a choragus.
- adjective a building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
choragus .
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- adjective pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus
Etymologies
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Examples
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The story is figured in a different form on the reliefs from the choragic monument of
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The design of the eighteenth century monument against the south wall, to Mr. Weddell of Newby, is taken from that of the choragic monument of
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett
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The frieze of the choragic monument of Lysikrates at Athens, 42
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The small circular Corinthian edifice, called among the common people the Lantern of Diogenes, [68] and erected, as we know from the inscription [69] on the architrave, to commemorate a choragic victory won by Lysikrates, son of Lysitheides, with a boy-chorus of the tribe Akamantis, in the archonship of
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The story is figured in a different form on the reliefs from the choragic monument of
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For there is a truly primitive and savage power in the imagination that could heap such piles of music, revel in the shattering fury of trumpets, upbuild choragic pyramids.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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In those days the Capuchins had a comfortable monastery in Athens, which they built on ground bought from the Turks in 1658, behind the choragic monument of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Sculptured figures, with the added interest of story, as on the choragic monument of Lysicrates, fulfilled the same decorative function in a more complex and elaborate way.
Line and Form (1900) Walter Crane 1880
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The statue of Pallas, erected by him in the Acropolis, is standing at this day, although it has lost the gold with which it was formerly adorned, and also the building which supports the choragic tripods in the temple of Dionysus, for he often gained a victory when choragus, and never was vanquished.
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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