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embalming
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embalm \Em*balm"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embalmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Embalming.] [F. embaumer; pref. em- (L. in) + baume balm. See Balm.]
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To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm ?is father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
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2. To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.
With fresh dews embalmed the earth.
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To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.
Those tears eternal that embalm the dead.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
n. The work of an embalmer. vb. (present participle of embalm English)
Wikipedia
Embalming is the art and science of preserving human remains by treating them (in its modern form with chemicals) to forestall decomposition. The intention is to keep them suitable for public display at a funeral, for religious reasons, or for medical and scientific purposes such as their use as anatomical specimens. The three goals of embalming are sanitization, presentation, and preservation (or restoration). Embalming has a very long and cross-cultural history, with many cultures giving the embalming processes a greater religious meaning.
Embalming is distinct from taxidermy. Embalming preserves the human body intact, whereas taxidermy is the recreation of an animal's form often using only the creature's skin mounted on an anatomical form.
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki, with occasional writing assistance from his wife Kaoru Kurosaki. It was serialized in the monthly Jump SQ. from the magazine's premiere on November 2, 2007 until April 4, 2015, with its chapters collected into ten tankÅbon volumes by Shueisha.
Two one-shot stories were first created: Embalming -Dead Body and Bride-, which was originally published on November 1, 2005 in the first issue of Jump the Revolution!; and Embalming II -Dead Body and Lover, which was released in the second issue of Jump the Revolution! on November 1, 2006. The series draws largely from the famed novel Frankenstein, but also features references to Sherlock Holmes and the real-life Jack the Ripper.
Usage examples of "embalming".
Finally, it is a quite significant fact that while some point to the pains which the Peruvians took in embalming their dead as a proof that they looked for a resurrection of the body, Acosta expressly says that they did not believe in the resurrection, and that this unbelief was the cause of their embalming.
It has been supposed that no common motive could have animated them to such lavish expenditure of money, time, and labor as the process of embalming required.
Accordingly, it is now the popular belief that the Egyptians were so scrupulous in embalming their dead and storing them in repositories of eternal stone, because they believed that the departed souls would at some future time come back and revivify their former bodies, if these were kept from decay.
Secondly, the mutilation of the body in embalming forbids the belief in its restoration to life.
Again: such an explanation of the motive for embalming cannot be correct, because in the hieroglyphic representations of the passage to the judgment the separate soul is often depicted as hovering over the body, 6 or as kneeling before the judges, or as pursuing its adventures through the various realms of the creation.
It is equally nonsensical in itself and unwarranted by evidence to imagine that, in the Egyptian faith, embalming either retained the soul in the body or preserved the body for a future return of the soul.
When the Canary Islands were first visited, it was found that their inhabitants had a custom of carefully embalming the dead.
It is not improbable, too, as has been suggested, that hygienic considerations, expressing themselves in political laws and priestly precepts, may at first have had an influence in establishing the habit of embalming, to prevent the pestilences apt to arise in such a climate from the decay of animal substances.
One thinks that embalming was supposed to keep the soul in the body until after the funeral judgment and interment, but that, when the corpse was laid in its final receptacle, the soul proceeded to accompany the sun in its daily and nocturnal circuit, or to transmigrate through various animals and deities.
Another imagines that the process of embalming was believed to secure the repose of the soul in the other world, exempt from transmigrations, so long as the body was kept from decay.
But it seems most likely, as we have said, that embalming first arose from physical and sentimental considerations naturally operating, rather than from any 8 Lib.
I was a little curious about the speedy embalming and burial of one of your patients a Miss Hannah Starbuck.
Storm would not yet speak for publication, but one of his deputies admitted that the district attorney was very much interested in the highly efficient embalming and burial of Dr.
Weatherby said to the effect that you were in the workroom of his mortuary while he was embalming the dog?
Only a moron could have failed to see the obvious inference that the embalming fluid had, in both cases, penetrated to the stomach of the dog and the stomach of the woman in equal amounts, and that Hannah Starbuck had not been poisoned at all!