cinerary

[ sin-uh-rer-ee ]

adjective

1. holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies:

   a cinerary urn.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cinerary¹

1740–50; < New Latin cinerārius; cineraria

Example Sentences

Figs. 185 and 186 represent the one-handled cinerary urns peculiar to the Bronze Age in Italy.

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According to early Spanish accounts cinerary urns were found imbedded in the capitals.

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From the quarry near Volterra the Etruscans obtained the alabaster for their cinerary urns.

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We give above a specimen of the highest class of cinerary urns.

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It may have originally stood on the cinerary base in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori.

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