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Word Meanings - ENTOMBMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ENTOMBMENT
    The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • DISINTERMENT
    The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

 

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