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The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
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inhumation
Word definitions for inhumation in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inhumation \In`hu*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. inhumation.] The act of inhuming or burying; interment. (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. (Med.) Arenation. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, noun of action from Latin inhumare (see inhume ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of burial. 2 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. 3 (context medicine English) arenation
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial , entombment , interment , sepulture ]
Usage examples of inhumation.
Once that person was identified and captured, and I emphasize that the goal was to capture that person, then what would typically happen was he would be moved to a South Vietnamese police facility, sometimes a province interrogation center where that person would be interrogated for applicable inhumation that he or she might be able to provide us leading to the identification and capture of yet other people who were of military operations that the Viet Cong or the army were planning.
Green seeming to be the first supervenient, or above-ground complexion of Vegetables, separable in many upon ligature or inhumation, as Succory, Endive, Artichoaks, and which is also lost upon fading in the Autumn.