Crossword clues for mummification
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mummification \Mum`mi*fi*ca"tion\, n. [See Mummify.] The act of making a mummy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1800, from mummy + -fication.
Wiktionary
n. The preserving of a dead body, by making it into a mummy.
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, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis]
embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy
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.