Definition of "mausolæum"

He Had then out Rival’d his Neighbour’s Prætenſions, and far beyond a Mauſolæum of Braſs, and Marble, extended a Living Monument of Himſelf round the Globe, to the Aſſiſtance of the Beſt Familys, and the perpetual Advantage of England.

1705, [Lewis] Maidwell, An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education. […], London: […] S. B. and J. B.

Gordon’s and Marshall’s Histories were written to make money: and fashioned and finished; to sell high in the London Market. I Should expect to find more Truth in a History written by Hutchinson, Oliver or Sewell. And I doubt not, Such Histories will one day appear. Marshall’s is a Mausolæum, 100 feet Square at the base, and 200 feet high. It will be as durable, as the monuments of the Washington benevolent Societies: Your Character in History may be easily foreseen.

1813 July, John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, Quincy, Mass.

Northern Hindu follows, the temples of Orissa and at Benares being conspicuous instances, and the chapter closes with instances from the mixed Hindu style, when the Mahometan conquests had introduced a leaven of new forms, grafting most gracefully upon the native treatment, and producing, in the mausolæa, the palace halls, and the majestic ghâts or landing places, studies of great and novel value to our architects.

1856, “The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture: being a concise and popular account of the different styles of Architecture prevailing in all ages and countries. By James Fergusson, […].”, in The New Quarterly Review, and Digest of Current Literature, British, American, French, and German. For the Year 1856., volume V, London: Bosworth & Harrison, page 276

[…]; the stately mausolæums of kings, and saints, and martyrs, and the enduring memorials of all the illustrious dead, suggest the supreme authority of our religious impressions and spiritual aspirations.

1864, S[amuel] B[yron] Brittan, Man and His Relations: Illustrating the Influence of the Mind on the Body; […], New York, N.Y.: W. A. Townsend, page 419