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Ossuary

noun
(pl. ossuaries)
1.
Any receptacle for the burial of human bones.






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"Ossuary" Quotes from Famous Books



... also a large ossuary in the corner of the small churchyard, now disused. These ossuaries, or reliquaires, in the graveyards of Brittany were built to carry out a curious and somewhat barbarous custom. It was considered by "those of ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various

... osteography, ossify, ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary, osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur, impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming



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