mindmap root((MUR)) muralist A painter of wall paintings.
🌱She's enjoying her new career as a muralist, but it's terribly hard on her when she sees her works wrecked by vandals. 🌳Any wall painting may be called a mural. Murals have been around since long before the framed painting. Scenic murals date back to at least 2000 B.C. on the island of Crete. Indoor murals for private homes were popular in ancient Greece and Rome, and many of those at Pompeii were preserved by the lava of Mt. Vesuvius. In the Renaissance the muralists Raphael and Michelangelo created great wall and ceiling paintings for the Catholic Church, and Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper became one of the most famous of all murals. Mural painting saw a great revival in Mexico beginning in the 1920s, when a group of muralists inspired by the Mexican Revolution, including Diego Rivera, J. C. Orozco, and D. A. Siqueiros, began taking their intensely political art to the public by creating giant wall paintings, sometimes on outdoor surfaces. intramural Existing or occurring within the bounds of an institution, especially a school.
🌱At college he lacked the time to go out for sports in a serious way, but he did play intramural hockey all four years. 🌳With its Latin prefix intra-, "within" （not to be confused with inter-, "between"）, intramural means literally "within the walls." The word is usually used for sports played between teams made up only from students at one campus. Intramural athletics is often the most popular extracurricular activity at a college or university. extramural Existing outside or beyond the walls or boundaries of an organized unit such as a school or hospital.
🌱"Hospital Without Walls" is an extramural program that offers home health-care services. 🌳Extramural contains the Latin extra-, meaning "outside" or "beyond" （See EXTRA.）The walls in extramural are usually those of schools, colleges, and universities, and the word is often seen in phrases like "extramural activities" and "extramural competition," referring to things that involve the world beyond the campus. Some institutions use the term "extramural study" for what others call "distance learning"—that is, teaching and learning by means of Web connections to the classroom and to videos of lectures. Money that flows into universities to support research （from foundations, government institutes, etc. is usually called "extramural income." immure To enclose within, or as if within, walls; imprison.
🌱In Dumas's famous novel, the Count of Monte Cristo is in fact a sailor who had been unjustly immured in an island prison for 15 years before breaking out and taking his revenge. 🌳In Eastern European legend, whenever a large bridge or fort was completed, a young maiden would be immured in the stonework as a sacrifice. （It's not certain that such things were actually done.） In Poe's grim story "A Cask of Amontillado," a man achieves revenge on a fellow nobleman by chaining him to a cellar wall and bricking him up alive. At the end of Verdi's great opera Aida, Aida joins her lover so that they can die immured together. But real-life examples of immurement as a final punishment are somewhat harder to find.