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cemeterial

American  
[sem-i-teer-ee-uhl, -tair-] / ˌsɛm ɪˈtɪər i əl, -ˈtɛər- /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a cemetery or to burial.


Etymology

Origin of cemeterial

First recorded in 1600–10; cemetery + -ial

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The attention of this gentleman was arrested by this smallness of cemeterial dimensions, or place of burial.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Though we decline the religious considera- tion, yet in cemeterial and narrower burying-places, to avoid confusion and cross-position, a certain posture were to be admitted: which even Pagan civility observed.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne

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