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Crematory

Crematorium \Crem`a*to"ri*um\ (kr?m`?-t?"r?-?m), Crematory \Crem"a*to*ry\ (kr?m"?-t?-r?), n.; pl. Crematoriums (-[u^]mz), Crematories (-r?z). [NL. crematorium, fr. L. cremator.] A furnace for cremating corpses; a building containing such a furnace.

Crematory

Crematory \Crem"a*to*ry\, a. Pertaining to, or employed in, cremation. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crematory

1876, the nativized form of crematorium. From 1884 as an adjective.

Wiktionary
crematory

a. Pertaining to the act of cremating bodies. n. The establishment or furnace that cremates bodies.

WordNet
crematory
  1. n. a mortuary where corpses are cremated [syn: crematorium]

  2. a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes [syn: crematorium, cremation chamber]

Wikipedia
Crematory

A crematory (also known as a crematorium, cremator or retort) is a machine in which cremation takes place. Crematories are usually found in funeral homes, chapels, cemeteries, or in stand-alone facilities. A facility which houses the actual crematory units is referred to as a crematorium.

Crematory (band)

Crematory is a gothic/ melodic death metal band formed in Mannheim, Germany in 1991.

Usage examples of "crematory".

The radio was announcing a sale on ground round steak and then some old-time rock came on, lush and mystical, cockney voices wailing through a prayer wheel of electric sitars, and we roared past Boston in a low cloud of crematory smoke.

Outside each city are other enigmatic mechanisms which are thought to be garbage disposers or crematories.

I know that your Heinrich Himmler would have settled the Viet Minh problem a long time ago with Zyclon-B (poison gas used by the Nazis in the extermination camps) and crematories, but France is supposed to be a democracy.

All over Langfuhr, in Schellmühl, in the Schichau housing development, from Saspe to Brösen, up Jäschkentaler Weg, down Heiligenbrunn, all around the Heinrich Ehlers Athletic Field, behind the crematory, outside Sternfeld's department store, along the shores of Aktien Pond, in the trenches of the municipal police, on certain trees of Uphagen Park, on certain lindens of the Hindenburgallee, on the bases of advertising pillars, on the flagpoles of the demonstration-hungry athletic field, on the still unblacked-out lampposts of the suburb of Langfuhr, Harras left his scent marks: he remained true to them for many dog years.

Laying up his treasure in heaven where moths break through and steal I mean my God, talk about a following shade of care I just got the bill for that cremation they didn't waste any time, twelve hundred seventy one dollars and fifty cents with another hundred fifty nine for the crematory charge and where would I like the remains sent my God, that bookshelf up there with Father and the ashes of this lasting memorial to his prominent place in the legal profession I said burn them didn't I?

We aren't even giving a thought to the smoke that rises up vertically from the chimney of the crematory.

He realized that if he cared to order them to march into one of Valley View's crematory ovens according to height, they'd gladly comply.