burial
[ber-ee-uh l]
Origin of burial
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Contemporary Examples
As the burial team arrived to remove the body, he began making small movements and was found to be still alive.
Unfortunately, neither of our teams had pinpointed the pig's burial site.
Knowing Where the Bodies Are Buried: An Excerpt From 'Lives in Ruins'Marilyn Johnson
November 14, 2014
“At one point they were going to perform a burial ceremony with the ashes,” he says.
This one woman crawled toward the body of her sister as the burial team carried out the body, carried the body bag away.
But the chain of death continued in the family after the burial of their mother.
This Man Lost 35 Relatives to Ebola and His Community Wants Him GoneWade C.L. Williams
October 30, 2014
Historical Examples
The burial took place at Mount Auburn on the ensuing Tuesday.
Biographical SketchesNathaniel Hawthorne
For his fight with Finn, his death and burial, see under Finn.
BeowulfUnknown
They were laid side by side in a long trench in the burial- ground.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
There is no doubt among antiquaries that they are connected with the burial of the dead.
English VillagesP. H. Ditchfield
A family or a burial association needed a place of sepulchre.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
burial
- the act of burying, esp the interment of a dead body
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Word Origin
Old English byrgels burial place, tomb; see bury, -al ²
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Word Origin and History for burial
n.
"act of burying," late 13c.; earlier "tomb" (c.1200), false singular from Old English byrgels "tomb," from byrgan "to bury" + suffix -els; a compound also found in Old Saxon burgisli, suggesting a Proto-Germanic *burgisli-, from PIE *bhergh- "to hide, protect" (see bury). The Germanic suffix *-isli- (also in Old English hydels "hiding place," fætels "bag") became obsolete and was felt as a plural of the Latin-derived suffix -al (2) forming nouns of action from verbs (survival, approval, etc.).
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