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Embalmment

Embalmment \Em*balm"ment\, n. [Cf. F. embaumement.] The act of embalming. [R.]
--Malone.

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embalmment

n. The process of embalming.

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embalmment

n. preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals

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The embalmment of the body was also practised in Central America and among the Aztecs.

He convoked around the corpse the gods who had worked with him at the embalmment of Osiris: Anubis and Thot, Isis and Nephthys, and his four children--Hapi, Qabhsonuf, Amsit, and Tiumautf--to whom he had entrusted the charge of the heart and viscera.