necropolitic

English

Adjective

necropolitic (comparative more necropolitic, superlative most necropolitic)

1. Of or pertaining to a necropolis.
   • 1761, A Complete History of the Arabs, volume 1:

     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.

   • 1958, Bertrand Flornoy, The World of the Inca, page 137:

     The earliest settlement, according to them, corresponds to a race of cave-dwellers, and the later one to a necropolitic culture.

   • 1995, Judy Schultz, Looking for China: Reflections on a Silk Road, page 157:

     At this stage of her life Prudence is paying more attention to what she calls necropolitic architecture.