Definition of burial

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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..

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Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.
Trental :: Trental (n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.
Casket :: Casket (n.) A kind of burial case.
Funereal :: Funereal (a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.
Burying Place :: Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.
Interment :: Interment (v. t.) The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.
Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.
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..
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.
Exhume :: Exhume (v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..
Sepelition :: Sepelition (n.) Burial.
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
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..
Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
Urn :: Urn (n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.
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.) A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.
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