burying, burial
(noun) concealing something under the ground
burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture
(noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Source: WordNet® 3.1
burial (countable and uncountable, plural burials)
The act of burying; interment
• See also interment
Source: Wiktionary
Bur"i*al, n. Etym: [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.]
1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [Matt. xxvii. 51, 52].
2. 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." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. 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 buriials, 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.
Syn.
– Sepulture; interment; inhumation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
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