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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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Etymology of 'Inhumation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inhumation" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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 necessary mark of ...

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

Words linked to "Inhumation" : sepulture, inhume, interment, entombment