Ashmolean
Speech parts
1. Ashmolean - Adjective
2. Ashmolean - Proper noun
Meaning
Ashmolean (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole.
the Ashmolean
(Oxford) Clipping of Ashmolean Museum.
Examples
During his year of tending to the details of Youlbury, administering the Ashmolean, and writing some minor papers, he had also discovered the script on some other jewellery that came to the museum from Myres in Crete.
On a fifth-century amphora in the Ashmolean Museum (her fig.71) the half-figure of Pandora emerges from the ground, her arms upraised in the epiphany gesture, to greet Epimetheus.
Evans returned to London to wind up his affairs there and make sure the Ashmolean had suitable direction in the event of his further absence.
During the next year he noticed the script on other artefacts in the Ashmolean.
He also persuaded Fortnum to donate £10,000 to build the extensive rooms behind the impressive façade, buildings which have only recently been demolished to make way for the new Ashmolean Museum.
ISBN 0-7063-1045-4 *Violins & Violinists, by Franz Farga (1950), Rockliff Publishing Corporation Ltd. *Viols, Violins and Virginals, by Jennifer A. Charlton (1985), Ashmolean Museum.