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2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like,
erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.;
as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument.
Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.

On your family's old monument

Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites

That appertain unto a burial.

3. A stone or other permanent object, serving
to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of
record.

Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous
days.

Syn. -- Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.

Mon`u*men"tal (?), a. [L.
monumentalis: cf. F. monumental.] 1.
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a
monumental inscription.

2. Serving as a monument; memorial;
preserving memory. "Of pine, or monumental oak."
Milton.

A work outlasting monumental
brass.


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