Meaning of INCINERATION
| Pronunciation: | | `ins'inur`eyshun
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| | Definition: | | [n] the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes |
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| | See Also: | | burning, combustion, cremation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In*cin`er*a"tion\, n. [LL. incineratio: cf. F.
incin['e]ration.]
The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated;
cremation.
The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a
new creation. --Skelton.
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| | Related Terms: | | blazing, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation, cracking, cremation, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling, flaming, funeral pile, 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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