INHUMING

Verb

inhuming

present participle of inhume

Source: Wiktionary


INHUME

In*hume", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhumed; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhuming.] Etym: [Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.]

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. Pope.

2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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BODILY

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Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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