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Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

Catacomb :: Catacomb (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural..

Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

Urn :: Urn (n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.

Grave :: Grave (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction..

Sepulchral :: Sepulchral (a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription..

Sepelible :: Sepelible (a.) Admitting of burial.

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

Service :: Service (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service..

Burial :: Burial (n.) 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..

Crypt :: Crypt (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory..

Entombment :: Entombment (n.) The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial..

Officiant :: Officiant (n.) The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office..

Necropolis :: Necropolis (n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard..

Exhume :: Exhume (v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

Carnary :: Carnary (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house..

Casket :: Casket (n.) A kind of burial case.

Obsequy :: Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural..

Interment :: Interment (v. t.) The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.

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