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Webster 1913 Edition
Inhumation
Inˊhu-ma′tion
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
inhumation
.] 1.
The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
2.
(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.
3.
(Med.)
Arenation.
Definition 2024
inhumation
inhumation
English
Noun
inhumation (plural inhumations)
- The act of burial.
- 1885, "Cremation or Burial," New York Times, 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
- "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
- 2010, Eti Bonn-Muller, "Dynasty of Priestesses," archaeology.org, 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
- Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
- 1885, "Cremation or Burial," New York Times, 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
- 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.
- (medicine) arenation
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The act of burial
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