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Burying Place :: Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

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..

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

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

Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A burial place.

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

Sepelition :: Sepelition (n.) Burial.

Catafalque :: Catafalque (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial..

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

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..

Burial :: Burial (n.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.

Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.

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

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

Trental :: Trental (n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

Honorable :: Honorable (a.) Performed or accompanied with marks of honor, or with testimonies of esteem; an honorable burial..

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

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural..

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