Catacombs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CATACOMBS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CATACOMB, an underground cemetery
• an underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient Romans.
• an underground construction resembling or compared to catacombs.

Words related to CATACOMBS

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How to use CATACOMBS in a sentence

• Thus a new saint, a new story, and a new exhibition of credulity had their rise not long ago from a grave and three words in the catacombs.
• I have since, however, spent many months there, and have always been very much pleased with every thing I saw, particularly the Catacombs, which were my favourite lounge.
• The finest specimens of ancient paintings are found in catacombs, the baths, and the ruins of Pompeii.
• By the middle of the fifth century the extension of the catacombs had ceased, and nearly about the same time the assemblies in them fell off.
• It was known that this pope had been buried in the Catacombs of St.
• The walls had been built when the faithful were forced by the presence of their enemies to desert the catacombs and leave them unprotected.
• Our own first introduction to the catacombs, in the winter of 1856, was under Mr.
• Nine tenths of the catacombs now known are cut through one of the volcanic rocks which abound in the neighborhood of Rome.
• But there is still another curious fact bearing upon the Christian origin of the catacombs.
• Many other facts, as we shall see in other connections, go to establish beyond the slightest doubt the Christian origin and occupation of the catacombs.
• It is from the catacombs that we must seek all that is left to enable us to construct the image that we desire.
• Few of the chapels that are to be seen now in the catacombs are in their original condition.
• There is little reason for supposing, as has frequently been done, that the catacombs, even in times of persecution, afforded shelter to any large body of the faithful.
• For this purpose, there are, in every church, particular chambers, with catacombs formed in the walls.
• Some fifteen years ago my father became acquainted and subsequently on terms of friendship with the great Rossi, in whose company he spent whole days in the catacombs.
• Bland, suave, smiling, quiet, but insistent, they dog you from the Vatican to the Catacombs.
• On the same plateau is the entrance to the celebrated Catacombs of St.
• The rock out of which this and all the Roman Catacombs were hewn seems as if created specially for the purpose.
• It is in this last formation, which is so soft that it can be easily hollowed out, and yet so solid that it does not crumble, that the Catacombs are invariably found.
• And hence, in the Catacombs, a singular variety of objects have been found.
• The earliest Christian paintings in the catacombs are purely classical.
• I love to think of his visit to the Catacombs, and all that followed.
• Discovery of the catacombs, 350 Origin of the catacombs, and how used by the Christians of Rome, ib.
• The rude pictures in the catacombs are on the same model.
• Ten thousand incendiary bombs have been discovered in the catacombs.
• I have taken you so unceremoniously out of the chateau of Versailles to put you into the catacombs, that some of the royal residences have not received the attention I intended.
• The evangelist portraits are dignified and saintly, recalling the earliest work of the Byzantine school and that of the catacombs.
• Catacombs under Rome supposed to have been of Etruscan origin, 542-u.
• Christians took refuge in the Catacombs when persecuted, 542-u.
• One of the most interesting places that I visited about Rome was the old underground cemetery called the Catacombs of St.
• I was fortunate enough to penetrate into the catacombs of St.
• These catacombs consist of handsome passages and pillars of masonry, which do not, however, exceed eight or nine feet in height.
• I mentioned that I had parents also, at that moment, lost in the Catacombs, but he did not apologize.

Similar words containing CATACOMB without suffix s

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