burial
101burial — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English beriel, berial, back formation from beriels (taken as a plural), from Old English byrgels; akin to Old Saxon burgisli tomb, Old English byrgan to bury more at bury Date: 13th century 1.… …
102burial — noun The act of burying; interment …
103BURIAL — See TOMBS …
104burial — Because of the high temperatures in Palestine, it was desirable to dispose of dead bodies as soon as the appropriate customs could be organized. The corpse was washed, anointed, and wrapped in linen cloth and carried in procession on a bier to… …
105burial — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. interment. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. last rites, interment, obsequies; see funeral 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. interment, inhumation, funeral, entombment, last rites, *deep six. seecemetery IV …
106BURIAL — the practice of laying the dead in the ground rather than disposing of their bodies by CREMATION, exposure, or some other means of rapid destruction. It is the TRADITIONAL means of disposing of the dead in CHRISTIANITY and remains the only… …
107burial — sb. See buryels …
108burial — bur·i·al || berɪəl n. act of burying, act of placing a corpse in the ground; ceremony which accompanies interment; grave …
109burial — n. Interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment, burying …
110burial — noun (C, U) the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave …
