Meaning of INTERMENT
| Pronunciation: | | in'turmunt
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| | Definition: | | [n] the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave |
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| | Synonyms: | | burial, entombment, inhumation, sepulture |
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| | See Also: | | funeral | |
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| | Definition: | | \In*ter"ment\, n. [OE. enterment, F. enterrement. See
{Inter}, v. t.]
The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth;
burial; sepulture; inhumation. --T. Warton.
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| | Related Terms: | | burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, darkening, deception, entombment, hiddenness, hiding, inhumation, invisibility, masking, mystification, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, sepulture, subterfuge, uncommunicativeness |
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