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Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

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..

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

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..

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

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

Funereal :: Funereal (a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

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

Sepelition :: Sepelition (n.) Burial.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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