Interment

//ɪnˈtɝmənt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of burying a dead body; burial. countable, uncountable

    "In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield, although not of the usual figure-of-eight shape. A false neck vase, however, that belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in shape and design, similar to one found at Muliana in company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze brooches like those found at Thunder Hill."

  2. 2
    the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English enterement, interment, from Old French enterrement. By surface analysis, inter + -ment.

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