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Inhume   Listen
verb
Inhume  v. t.  (past & past part. inhumed; pres. part. inhuming)  
1.
To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter. "Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain."
2.
To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.






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"Inhume" Quotes from Famous Books



... who'll object a kind friend to inhume, When his sepulchre's made like a gay drawing-room 1 A diversified, soothing commixture of trees, Umbrageous and fann'd by the perfumed breeze; With alcoves, and bowers, and fish-ponds, and shrubs, Select, as in life, from intrusion ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... second duc de Normandie, mort victime de la plus infame trahison, dans l'entrevue qu'il eut a Pecquigny, le 18 Decembre, 944, avec Arnoul, comte de Flandres. Le corps du duc Guillaume fut apporte a Rouen et inhume dans la cathedrale. [Voyez Servin, Hist. de Rouen, tom. I. ...
— Architectural Antiquities of Normandy • John Sell Cotman

... hatchment^, stone; obelisk, pyramid. exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination [Lat.]; zoothapsis^. V. inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn^. exhume, disinter, unearth. Adj. burried &c v.; burial, funereal, funebrial^; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary^; elegiac; necroscopic^. Adv. in memoriam; post obit, post mortem [Lat.]; beneath the ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



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