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Preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals
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embalmment
Word definitions for embalmment in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embalmment \Em*balm"ment\, n. [Cf. F. embaumement.] The act of embalming. [R.] --Malone.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The process of embalming.
Usage examples of embalmment.
The embalmment of the body was also practised in Central America and among the Aztecs.
He convoked around the corpse the gods who had worked with him at the embalmment of Osiris: Anubis and Thot, Isis and Nephthys, and his four children--Hapi, Qabhsonuf, Amsit, and Tiumautf--to whom he had entrusted the charge of the heart and viscera.