Razed to the ground

Usage examples of demolished.

The magistrates and soldiers were put to the sword, the walls demolished, the privileges suppressed, and the destined capital of the East subsisted only as an open village, subject to the insulting jurisdiction of Perinthus.

At length, on a singular bridge, constructed with art and difficulty, of large hogsheads, he transported his army to the opposite bank, rooted up the beautiful vineyards in the neighborhood of Aquileia, demolished the suburbs, and employed the timber of the buildings in the engines and towers, with which on every side he attacked the city.

It was enacted, that their churches, in all the provinces of the empire, should be demolished to their foundations.

Babylas was demolished, and new buildings were added to the mouldering edifice which had been raised by the piety of Syrian kings.

His children and widow erected for him a magnificent tomb in the Vatican, which was demolished in the time of Pope Nicholas V.

Without discipline it was impossible for them to rally: they had contemptuously demolished the walls and fortifications which might have protected their distress.

Stephen at Verona was demolished by the command of Theodoric, it is probable that some miracle hostile to his name and dignity had been performed on that sacred theatre.

The altar of national concern, of annual sacrifice and oaths, which Diocletian had created in the Isla of Elephantine, was demolished by Justinian with less policy than] [Footnote 126: Procopius de Edificiis, l.

Against the city which had so long delayed the course of his victories, he appeared inexorable: one third of the walls, in different parts, were demolished by his command.

The walls, as far as they had been demolished by the Goths, were repaired with rude and dissimilar materials.

But the evidence of his destructive rage is doubtful and recent: the Temple of Peace, or the theatre of Marcellus, have been demolished by the slow operation of ages, and a formal proscription would have multiplied the copies of Virgil and Livy in the countries which were not subject to the ecclesiastical dictator.

They submitted in silence: their temples were demolished, and the same sentence of destruction was executed on all the idols of Arabia.

The temple of the Christian world, the church of the Resurrection, was demolished to its foundations.

By the command of the sultan, the churches and fortifications of the Latin cities were demolished: a motive of avarice or fear still opened the holy sepulchre to some devout and defenceless pilgrims.

The captives, in their shirts, with a rope round their necks, solicited their pardon: the fortifications, and even the buildings, of the rival cities, were demolished, and the inhabitants were scattered in the adjacent villages.