burial

  • 21Burial —    The Burial Office set forth in the Prayer Book is intended for the Church s own people, and therefore it cannot be used over an unbaptized adult, because not being baptized he is not a member of the Church. It cannot be used over an… …

    American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • 22burial — bur|i|al [ˈberiəl] n [U and C] [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: burial place where a body is buried (13 17 centuries), from Old English byrgels] 1.) the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a ↑grave 2.) the act of burying something in the ground… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 23burial — [[t]be̱riəl[/t]] burials N VAR A burial is the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground. The priest prepared the body for burial... He can have a decent burial …

    English dictionary

  • 24burial — skubus laidojimas statusas T sritis Gynyba apibrėžtis Laidojimas, paprastai kovos lauke, kai nėra sąlygų laidoti kapinėse ar pagal tautines ar tarptautines normas. atitikmenys: angl. burial; emergency burial pranc. inhumation; inhumation… …

    NATO terminų aiškinamasis žodynas

  • 25burial — Disposition of dead body by interment. See interference with burial; right of burial …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 26burial — noun 1》 the burying of a dead body.     ↘a funeral. 2》 Archaeology a grave or the remains found in it. Origin OE byrgels place of burial, grave , of Gmc origin; related to bury …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 27burial — noun a private burial at Vineyard Point Cemetery Syn: burying, interment, committal, entombment; funeral, obsequies; formal inhumation; archaic sepulture See note at interment Ant: exhumation …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 28burial — n 1. funeral, exequies, obsequies, rites or ceremonies; burying, interment, entombment, inhumation, sepulture. 2. grave, graveyard, cemetery. See burial ground …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 29burial — bur•i•al [[t]ˈbɛr i əl[/t]] n. 1) the act or ceremony of burying 2) the place of burying; grave • Etymology: 1200–50; ME buriel, back formation from OE byrgels burial place =byrg(an) to bury+ els n. suffix; cf. riddle I …

    From formal English to slang

  • 30burial —   Kanu, kanu ana.    ♦ Burial place where bones of chiefs were hidden, awaloa (rare) …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary