Necropolitic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a necropolis.

    "The Necropolitic part of the city was terminated on one side by a grand street, that extended from the gate which went under that name to the gate of Canopus, which is said to have been an hundred feet wide, and had, doubtless, in it many magnificent buildings, as sufficiently appears from the granite pillars still remaining in two or three parts."

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"The Necropolitic part of the city was terminated on one side by a grand street, that extended from the gate which went under that name to the gate of Canopus, which is said to have been an hundred feet wide, and had, doubtless, in it many magnificent buildings, as sufficiently appears from the granite pillars still remaining in two or three parts."

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