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Crematory

noun
(pl. crematoriums, crematories)
1.
A mortuary where corpses are cremated.  Synonym: crematorium.
2.
A furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes.  Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium.






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"Crematory" Quotes from Famous Books



... models to illustrate ventilation, and the exhibits of hygienic glazed tiles arranged around a desert lecture-theatre. Hygienic tiles stimulate the eye vigorously rather than relax it by any aesthetic weakness; and the crematory appliances are so attractive as they are, and must have such an added charm of neatness and brightness when alight, that one longs to lose a relative or so forthwith, for the mere pleasure of seeing ...
— Certain Personal Matters • H. G. Wells

... that those who have enriched the world with great thoughts and fine creations, might best be content to rest unmarked 'where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,' leaving as little work to the literary executor, except of the purely crematory sort, as did Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare, and some others whose names the world will not willingly let die. But this is a stoic's doctrine; the objector may easily retort that if it had been sternly acted on, we should ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) - The Life of George Eliot • John Morley

... left off wanting any tombstone long before he died. In accordance with his wish his body was cremated, and a week later Alfred and I returned to Woking and buried his ashes under the shrubs in the garden of the crematorium, with nothing to mark ...
— Samuel Butler: A Sketch • Henry Festing Jones

... of the hut, and we stood side by side mournfully watching the crematory process. Naturally, we were very keenly distressed at the untimely and tragic fate which had overtaken our staunch little friend Daphne. She had been so cheerful, so helpful, and—particularly during Smellie's illness—so tender, so gentle, so sympathetic, and so tireless ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood



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