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Entombment   /ɪntˈummənt/   Listen
Entombment

noun
1.
The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave.  Synonyms: burial, inhumation, interment, sepulture.





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"Entombment" Quotes from Famous Books



... its limit; for, apart from the modes that have just been named, there are no others but earth-burial and entombment, and earth-burial, as we have seen, cannot be made sanitary under common conditions. Therefore, if the demands of affection and sanitation are both to be met, entombment is to do it, or ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
... predecessor, with whom sixty-six persons were buried alive, and that one hundred and seventy-seven in all were buried with Mu. The death of the last distinguished man of the House of Khin, the emperor [1], was subsequently celebrated by the entombment with him of all the inmates of ...
— The Shih King • James Legge


Words linked to "Entombment" :   funeral, entomb, inhumation


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