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noun

Burial n.

A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. (Obs.) "The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened."

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." "Now to glorious burial slowly borne."

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.

Synonyms: Sepulture; interment; inhumation.

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Etymology of 'Burial'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes

... the feast (n['ae]skut) are the nearest relatives of those who have died during the past year, together with those villagers who have not yet given the greater festival. The day before the festival the male mourners go to the village burial ground and plant a newly made stake before the grave of their relative. The stake is surmounted by a wooden model of a spear, if the deceased be a man; or a wooden dish, if it be a woman. The totem mark of the deceased is carved upon it. In the north simple models of kayak ...

— The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo • Ernest William Hawkes

... Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be. I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest. I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug ...

— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... use of in preparing him to instruct others. All the events of his Saviour's life passed before his mind as if he had stood by as a witness to his birth—his walking with his disciples; his wondrous parables and stupendous miracles; his mental and bodily sufferings; his sacrifice, burial, ascension, intercession, and final judgment; all passed in vivid review before the eye of his mind; and then, he says, 'as I was musing with myself what these things should mean, methought I heard such a word in my heart ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... suitor in these words: "Ktesippos, thou hast escaped death. It is well that this stranger avoided thy blow, for if thou hadst struck him, my sharp spear would have pinned thee to the wall, and thy father would have prepared a burial instead of ...

— Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca - Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece • Homer

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