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Inurn

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container. transitive

    "[…] the Sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn’d Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, To cast thee vp againe"

  2. 2
    To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died). transitive

    "Now there are no other remains of its [Hadrian’s mausoleum’s] grandeur than a ball of bronze in the Vatican, which crowned its cupola, and was supposed to inurn the ashes of its Imperial founder."

Etymology

From in- + urn.

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