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noun

Inhumation n.

The act of inhuming or burying; interment.

(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.

(Med.) Arenation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the walls; and the whole is described as a most revolting and barbarous spectacle. The last occupant was said to have departed this life as late as 1835, adding, by the comparative newness of his inhumation, to the ...

— Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay • Miss Emma Roberts

... body, as opposed to the pagan belief in the immortality of the soul, once more bringing us back to the small oblong mound which is after all but the dwarfed and humbler modern representative of the long barrow? So deep is the connection between that familiar shape and the practice of inhumation that the dwarf long barrow seems everywhere to have come into use again throughout all Europe, after whole centuries of continued cremation, as the natural concomitant and ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... taken voluminous pains to determine the state of the soul upon disunion; but men have been most phantastical in the singular contrivances of their corporal dissolution: whilst the soberest nations have rested in two ways, of simple inhumation ...

— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne

... careful examination of the interior of many of the skulls, shows that roots have vegetated within them, the dry fibres of which I have often observed; next, the teeth are nearly all absent, and it is notoriously one of the first effects of inhumation upon the osseous system, by which the teeth are loosened; and lastly, we have two sources from which bodies may have been exhumed and reinterred beneath the mother church; and those are the Chapel ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 • Various

... inhumation is generally chosen on the advice of magicians who are supposed to know the sites which are likely to be most favourable to the deceased. Sometimes the body is exhumed at great expense, still on the advice of the same magicians, who, being in direct communication with ...

— Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor