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Inhumation

Inhumation \In`hu*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. inhumation.]

  1. The act of inhuming or burying; interment.

  2. (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.

  3. (Med.) Arenation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inhumation

1630s, noun of action from Latin inhumare (see inhume).

Wiktionary
inhumation

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
inhumation

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.