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Way of preserving bodies
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mummification
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Word definitions for mummification in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1800, from mummy + -fication .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mummification \Mum`mi*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See Mummify .] The act of making a mummy.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape" (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color [syn: dry gangrene , ...
Usage examples of mummification.
I feel more fully its antediluvian antiquity, its centuries of mummification, which will soon degenerate into hopeless and grotesque buffoonery, as it comes into contact with Western novelties.
In other continents the Inca, Maori, Jivaro, and other cultures developed the art of mummification, but never to such extremes of refinement as the Egyptians.
Even with decay and mummification, Kaldarren could see that the boy had raised periorbital ridges.