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The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
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entombment
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of entombing or the state of being entombed 2 The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encase it in concrete
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entombment \En*tomb"ment\, n. The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. --Barrow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from entomb + -ment .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial , inhumation , interment , sepulture ]
Usage examples of entombment.
Christ taken for the last time before Pilate, the Original journey to Calvary, Fainting Madonna, Crucifixion, Entombment, Ascension, and the old church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary now removed.
But he thought a Dardanian aristocrat should know enough Standard to grasp his meaning and the language had not changed enormously in the centuries since her entombment.
According to Bordiga the first was the entombment, containing nine figures of wood, or, as the earlier writers say, eight.
Bordiga probably means that the Entombment was the earliest chapel with figures in it, and the other writers that the St.
These last speak very highly of the wooden figures in the Entombment chapel, and so more guardedly does Bordiga.
I sometimes question whether the original wooden-figured entombment was in the chapel in which the present modern figures are seen, but it probably was so.
The firm conviction of the necessity of a vegetation possessing a character of tropical luxuriance, to support such large animals, and the impossibility of reconciling this with the proximity of perpetual congelation, was one chief cause of the several theories of sudden revolutions of climate, and of overwhelming catastrophes, which were invented to account for their entombment.
He showed us a delicate aedicula with two columns of lapis lazuli and gold which framed an Entombment of Christ in fine silver bas-relief surmounted by a golden cross set with thirteen diamonds against a background of grainy onyx, while the little pediment was scalloped with agate and rubies.
Since he had survived such entombments before, this one did not cause apprehension, and there was one change which brought a measure of contentment.
Stumbled forth after long entombments, they blinked swiftly, disbelieving the packet of their misery sprawled near the spent carousel.
We will find no cemeteries or entombments, except perhaps a very few archaic barrows from a very early age.
One of the best-preserved was of a woman named Shub-ad, buried with her court of some twenty-five attendants directly above the entombment of a male personage named A-bar-gi, with whom sixty-five or so had been laid to rest.