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

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

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

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..

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

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

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

Cemetery :: Cemetery (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

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..

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.

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

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..

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..

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..

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.

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

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