Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ossuary , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A charnel house; an ossuary.
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- noun A
charnel house ; anossuary .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will not place an ossuarium in my garden for my cat, before her bones are ready to be placed in it.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
mr_write commented on the word ossuarium
ossuarium Communal burial place.
December 8, 2007