Word Meanings - BURIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff . 2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant

Additional info about word: BURIAL

1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff . 2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preservation of a dead body. -- Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. -- Burial place, any place where burials are made. -- Burial service. The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service. Syn. -- Sepulture; interment; inhumation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BURIAL)

• Sepulture
• Burial
• interment
• humation

Related words: (words related to BURIAL)

• SEPULTURE
  1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment. Where we may royal sepulture prepare. Dryden. 2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. Drunkeness that the horrible sepulture of man's reason. Chaucer.
• HUMATION
  Interment; inhumation.
• BURIAL
  1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff . 2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant
• INTERMENTION
  To mention among other things, or casually or incidentally.
• INTERMENT
  The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. T. Warton.
• INHUMATION
  The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed. (more info) 1. The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
• TREE BURIAL
  Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples.
• IMPOSTHUMATION
  1. The act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration. 2. An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.
• DISINTERMENT
  The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
• EXHUMATION
  The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.