About The Word Burial
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Burial
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What's The Definition Of Burial?
[n] concealing something under the ground
[n] the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave Synonyms | Synonyms for Burial: burying | entombment | inhumation | interment | sepulture Related Terms | Find terms related to Burial: baptism | barrow | beehive tomb | bone house | box grave | burial at sea | burial chamber | burial customs | burial mound | burying | catacombs | cenotaph | charnel house | cist | cist grave | clouding | concealedness | concealment | cortege | covering | covering up | covertness | cromlech | crypt | darkening | dead march | deception | deep six | deposition | dip | dipping | dirge | dokhma | dolmen | dousing | duck | ducking | dunking | encoffinment | engulfment | entombment | exequies | funeral | funeral procession | funerary customs | grave | hiddenness | hiding | house of death | immergence | immersion | inhumation | interment | inundation | inurning | invisibility | last home | last post | long home | low green tent | low house | masking | mastaba | mausoleum | monstrance | muffled drum | mummy chamber | mystification | narrow house | obscuration | obscurement | obsequies | occultation | ossuarium | ossuary | passage grave | pit | primary burial | putting away | pyramid | reburial | reliquary | resting place | screening | secondary burial | secrecy | secretion | sepulcher | sepulture | shaft grave | shrine | sinking | souse | sousing | stupa | submergence | submersion | subterfuge | taps | tomb | tope | tower of silence | tumulus | uncommunicativeness | urn burial | vault See Also | concealing | concealment | funeral | hiding | reburial | reburying Burial In Webster's Dictionary \Bur"i*al\, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS.
byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli
sepulcher.]
1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.]
The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and
biriels weren opened. --Wycliff
[Matt. xxvii.
51, 52].
2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth,
in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with
attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. ``To give a
public burial.'' --Shak.
Now to glorious burial slowly borne. --Tennyson.
{Burial case}, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to
close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.
{Burial ground}, a piece of ground selected and set apart for
a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by
religious ceremonies.
{Burial place}, any place where burials are made.
{Burial service}.
(a) The religious service performed at the interment of
the dead; a funeral service.
(b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an
interment; as, the English burial service.
Syn: Sepulture; interment; inhumation.
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