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Mummify

verb

(past & past part. mummified; pres. part. mummifying)

Preserve while making lifeless.

Remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it.

Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture. Synonym: dry up.

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"Mummify" Quotes from Famous Books

... can do one harm, and that They have occult powers. All the world has known that for a hundred thousand years, more or less, and every attempt has been made to propitiate Them. James I. would drown Their mistress or burn her, but They were spared. Men would mummify Them in Egypt, and worship the mummies; men would carve Them in stone in Cyprus, and Crete and Asia Minor, or (more remarkable still) artists, especially in the Western Empire, would leave Them out altogether; so much was Their influence dreaded. Well, I yield so far as not to print Their ...

— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc

... from the ceiling. When the number of these relics begins to incommode the living inmates of the house, the older mummies are removed and deposited in the hollow trunks of ancient trees. In some tribes who thus mummify their dead the juices of corruption which drip from the rotting corpse are caught in a vessel and given to the widow to drink, who is forced to gulp them down under the threat of decapitation if she were ...

— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer