Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of burying in the ground, especially as opposed to incremation; interment.
- noun In chem., a method, now obsolete, of digesting substances by burying the vessel containing them in warm earth or manure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
- noun (Old Chem.) 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.
- noun (Med.) Arenation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
burial . - noun The act of burying
vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderateheat ; the state of being thus exposed. - noun medicine
arenation
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- noun the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Etymologies
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Examples
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Death isn’t good for profits, you see, and self-inhumation is taken very seriously.
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One of the funerary practices in widespread use by the early English ‘Anglo-Saxons’, before they converted to Christianity, was inhumation burial with grave goods.
Archive 2010-05-01 Carla 2010
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One of the funerary practices in widespread use by the early English ‘Anglo-Saxons’, before they converted to Christianity, was inhumation burial with grave goods.
Silk in early England Carla 2010
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Like the others she had seen, this was no careful inhumation, but the hurried concealment of a crime.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Like the others she had seen, this was no careful inhumation, but the hurried concealment of a crime.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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Two other inhumation burials, each containing a man buried with weapons and a horse, were excavated at RAF Lakenheath in 1997 and 1999.
Archive 2008-06-01 Carla 2008
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Two other inhumation burials, each containing a man buried with weapons and a horse, were excavated at RAF Lakenheath in 1997 and 1999.
Horses in seventh-century England Carla 2008
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I remember one study from an English inhumation cemetery (I will look up the reference when I have time) reported the average (mean, I think) height of the men at around six feet.
Horses in seventh-century England Carla 2008
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The Jewish nation, though they entertained the old way of inhumation, yet sometimes admitted this practice.
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Many have taken voluminous pains to determine the state of the soul upon disunion; but men have been most phantastical in the singular contrivances of their corporal dissolution: whilst the soberest nations have rested in two ways, of simple inhumation and burning.
ruzuzu commented on the word inhumation
"2. In chem., a method, now obsolete, of digesting substances by burying the vessel containing them in warm earth or manure." --Cent. Dict.
May 16, 2011