Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The burial of a person alive.
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- noun The practice of
burying someonealive .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Simple vivisepulture was and is practised by many people.
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Simple vivisepulture was and is practised by many people.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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[FN#49] I am not aware that this vivisepulture of the widower is the custom of any race, but the fable would be readily suggested by the Sati (Suttee) - rite of the Hindus.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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After that such words as xanthosis, vivisepulture, autochonous, ursprache and serrifine, to name a few, were winning words.
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49 I am not aware that this vivisepulture of the widower is the custom of any race, but the fable would be readily suggested by the Sati (Suttee) - rite of the Hindus.
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283 As in most hot climates so in Egypt the dead are buried at once despite the risk of vivisepulture.
whichbe commented on the word vivisepulture
Burying alive.
May 11, 2008