Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
- adjective vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing
ashes , especially those of a cremated person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead
Etymologies
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Examples
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The so-called cinerary urns are large vessels which have been usually discovered containing human bones; they have often been found inverted over cremated remains.
The Bronze Age in Ireland George Coffey 1886
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Some of the objects were miniatures especially made for the funeral, and many were deliberately broken, with only a portion interred in the cinerary urns, with the rest perhaps kept as mementoes for the living, he added.
Anglo-Saxons honored their dead with mundane household objects 2008
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The walls contain only a few reused blocks (spolia) being mainly middle to late Hellenistic cinerary urns (osteothecae).
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Inside the dolium was a bronze cinerary urn containing the burnt bones wrapped in a linen cloth; silver items including a bowl and dragon fibula (garment pin); and small objects of ivory and amber.
Dig Like a Surgeon 1999
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"Bring me a cinerary urn," said he, and he walked forward to the dying embers.
The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome Anonymous
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The fine sarcophagi now found in museums, or applied to all sorts of uses, as water-troughs, vases for flowers, and various other purposes, were all originally in tombs, and generally in tombs in which there were also _columbaria_ for cinerary urns.
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It was discovered near Marlborough by Sir R.C. Hoare, and its contents proved it to be a cinerary urn of a date probably not much anterior to the Roman occupation of Britain.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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Swan inn, was a Roman burial ground, and several cinerary urns and some coffins have been discovered there.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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To the south-east of the camp, on a spur of the hill and in the direction of Preston, is a remarkable and extensive British cemetery, from which numbers of cinerary urns and other relics have been excavated.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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The pottery is all "hand-made," and the bulk of the objects excavated are cinerary urns, usually found full of burnt bones.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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