inhume

American  

[in-hyoom, -yoom] / ɪnˈhjum, -ˈjum /

verb (used with object)

inhumed, inhuming

1. to bury; inter.

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inhume British  

/ ɪnˈhjuːm /

verb

1. (tr) to inter; bury

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Other Word Forms

• inhumation
  noun
• inhumer
  noun
• uninhumed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of inhume

1610–20; < Medieval Latin inhumāre, equivalent to Latin in- in- ² + -humāre, derivative of humus earth ( see humus); cf. exhume

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

inhume inhumed

The urgent necessity there is to inhume at once these dead bodies, the most active agents in diffusing the contagion, is equally the drift of this observation.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

It may be absurd to wait too long; it is indecorous to inhume too soon.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

The Mandans, of the Upper Missouri, never inhume or bury their dead, but place their bodies, according to Mr. Catlin, on light scaffolds, out of the reach of the wolves and foxes.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

The Chinese inhume their dead at some distance from their cities and towns; it is only the bodies of the rich and noble that are allowed to remain on the premises of the family.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

As to Bankei—the funeral rites had been performed, the sutra read, the body inhumed in the same mound with those of Kakunai and the horse.

From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

He says, moreover, that a noise was often heard in churches where the dead were inhumed, and that dead persons have been seen often to enter the houses wherein they dwelt before their decease.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

The dead are cremated, not, as in the Mycenaean prime, inhumed.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

She said; but they already slept inhumed In Lacedemon, in their native soil.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

The early Christians inhumed the bodies of their martyrs in their temples.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)