Word Meanings - INTERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. T. Warton.

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.
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
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.
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.