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polyandrium

polyandrium [LL < πολυανδρεῖον], ~um , cemetery, common burial place. exposcimus ut hoc cimiterium sive poliandrum in quo famulorum famularumque ‥ corpora requiescere debent ‥ benedicere digneris Egb. Pont. 54; cujus sanctum corpus ‥ cum laudibus et hymnis ad Turonicam portatur civitatem, ibique in ~o publico sepultus est Alcuin Hag. 662B; a940 classica archangeli clangente buccina paliandria frigulis homulorum liquefactis tetra relinquentibus CS 640; cimiterium, poliandrium, halig leger[stow] Ælf. Gl. 140; 10‥ in prescripto †polianeso [l. poliandro] basilice divina predestinatio sepulturam ordinavit (Ch.) MonA VI 1042a; ~ium locus appellatur, ubi multa sunt sepulcra publica Beleth RDO 159. 157A; est mausoleum, †pollandum [l. polyandrum], tumba, sepulcrum Garl. Syn. 1589A; polys, multus, multa, poly, multum, a quo ~ion, sepulcrum multitudinis Bacon Gram. Gk. 64; s1250 ut ‥ regis Malcolmi poliandrum aperiretur Plusc. VII 15; hec tumba, hoc poliandrum, a grave WW.

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