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/bˈɛriəl graʊnd/ Listen

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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"Burial ground" Quotes from Famous Books

... the town of Framingham voted to place a memorial stone over the grave of Peter Salem, alias Salem Middlesex, whose last resting place in the old burial ground at Framingham Centre has been unmarked for years. For this purpose $150 was appropriated by the town. The committee in charge of the matter has placed a neat granite memorial over his grave, and it bears ...

— The Black Phalanx - African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the - War of 1812, and the Civil War • Joseph T. Wilson

... year, and his grave's never visited after a few turns of the wheel; but if I rest on Memaloose Isle, I'll not be forgotten while people travel this river. And another thing: You know, John, the dirty, mean whites stole the Indian's burial ground and built Portland there. Everyday the papers have an account of Mr. Bigbug's proposed palace, and how Indian bones were turned up in the excavation. I won't be buried alongside any such dirty, mean ...

— Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist • E. L. Lomax

... old Jewish cemetery which gave Longfellow his theme, "The Old Jewish Burial Ground at Newport." What exiles, what persecutions have been theirs, yet here we repeat by the sounding sea the sad ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... when the mortal remains of Mrs. Farnaby were laid at rest was a day of heavy rain. Mr. Melton, and two or three other old friends, were the attendants at the funeral. When the coffin was borne into the damp and reeking burial ground, a young man and a woman were the only persons, beside the sexton and his assistants, who stood by the open grave. Mr. Melton, recognizing Amelius, was at a loss to understand who his companion could be. It was impossible to suppose that he would ...

— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins

... glorious breadth of mouth that I could see far enough down his black and tan throat to tell pretty well what he had for breakfast. This annoyed me. I like an open countenance in a servant, but I detest a mouth that looks like a mere burial ground for cold chicken. We rode on for a mile or two, and then saw a pretty little herd of springbok about eighteen hundred yards away on the left. Slipping down into a donga, I left the horse and crawled forward, getting ...

— Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) - Letters from the Front • A. G. Hales