Lachrymatories

_ -- In many ancient places of sepulture we find long narrow phials which are called lachrymatories, and are supposed to have been receptacles for tears: can you inform me on what authority this supposition rests? ❋ Various (N/A)

The peasants, in digging, have likewise found many urns, lachrymatories, and sepulchral stones, with epitaphs, which are now dispersed among different convents and private houses. ❋ Unknown (2004)

This, possibly the remains of lachrymatories, was very different from the modern bottle-green, which resembles the old Roman. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This, possibly the remains of lachrymatories, was very different from the modern bottle-green, which resembles the old ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)

Among a great number of lachrymatories and various other vessels in the British Museum, there is ❋ Shearjashub Spooner (1834)

The revolution has swept away every human being in the character of a nun; but the director of the manufactory shewed me, with great civility, some relics of old crosses, rings, veils, lachrymatories, &c. which had been taken from the crypt I had recently visited. ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)

_tesserae_, with the pottery, tiles, coins, lachrymatories, sepulchral urns, etc., excavated from time to time in and about the church, are clear indications of an important Roman settlement. ❋ George Worley (N/A)

Archies will maintain a barrage along the far side, to keep them from breaking away to Smithson's moor (a poor sportsman, Smithson; uses lachrymatories. ❋ Various (N/A)

"The poorest of the sepulchres is certain to contain (in Greece) at least a few of these beautiful vases, the lachrymatories, &c. ❋ Various (1852)

1. This song is [lachrymatory]. 2. They discovered an old lachrymatory in the [ruins]. 3. [Maria]: I hate using lol so much. Josh: just say lachrymatory instead. Maria: okay hehe. Josh: lachrymatory. ❋ Joey Paul (2018)