Meaning of CREMATION
| Pronunciation: | | kri'meyshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the incineration of a dead body |
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| | See Also: | | incineration | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cre*ma"tion\ (kr?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. crematio.]
A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
Without cremation . . . of their bodies. --Sir T.
Browne.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that someone is being cremated, represents purification and your strive for perfection. |
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| Glossary |
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| | Definition: | | an intentionally burned human interment. |
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| | Related Terms: | | blazing, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation, cracking, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, flaming, funeral pile, incineration, oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyre, pyrolysis, reduction to ashes, refining, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation, singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake, thermogenesis, vesication |
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