{"id":16359,"date":"2006-01-29T21:37:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/01\/29\/marmoreal.html"},"modified":"2006-01-29T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T05:37:36","slug":"marmoreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/01\/29\/marmoreal\/","title":{"rendered":"marmoreal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>Carved like a gargoyle visage in the side of the wall, massive, marmoreal, except that a great rumbling low breath escaped from between its lips[....]<\/p>\n<p>--<cite>On<\/cite>, by Adam Roberts, p. 225 of the 2002 Gollancz paperback edition<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MW11 says \"marmoreal\" means (paraphrasing) \"like a marble statue.\"<\/p>\n<p>It's possible I've seen this word before; it looks vaguely familiar.  But I certainly had no idea what it meant, even from context. If I'd had to guess, I'd have guessed it meant \"marmot-like.\" :)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Carved like a gargoyle visage in the side of the wall, massive, marmoreal, except that a great rumbling low breath escaped from between its lips[&#8230;.] &#8211;On, by Adam Roberts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}