inhume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of inhume
1610–20; < Medieval Latin inhumāre, equivalent to Latin in- in- 2 + -humāre, derivative of humus earth ( see humus); cf. exhume
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The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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 A Sexton of the Old School
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 Honor? Bourguignon
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 A Sexton of the Old School
The steward of Count Simon Labienski, starost of Posnania, being dead, the Countess Dowager de Labienski wished, from gratitude for his services, to have him inhumed in the vault of the lords of that family.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
Some Tasmanian tribes burned the dead and carried the ashes about in amulets; others buried in hollow trees; others simply inhumed.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
All that happened before the body of Catharine was inhumed.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
Amalarius cites of the Venerable Bede, that a holy wafer was placed on the breast of this saint before he was inhumed; "oblata super sanctum pectus positâ."
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
The early Christians inhumed the bodies of their martyrs in their temples.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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