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Catacomb :: Catacomb (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural..

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..

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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..

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

Casket :: Casket (n.) A kind of burial case.

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..

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

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

Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

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..

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..

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