Interment
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave wordnet
Example
More examples"Neighbors went hastily to the old tumble-down hut, in which she had secured little more than a place of shelter from summer heats and winter cold: some with grave-clothes for a decent interment of the body; and some with food for the half-starving children, three in number."
Etymology
From Middle English enterement, interment, from Old French enterrement. By surface analysis, inter + -ment.
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