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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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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