inhume
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
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 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
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 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 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?
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)
The early Christians inhumed the bodies of their martyrs in their temples.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
Bankei had this inhumed in the ground behind the main hall of the temple.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
The whole nation was sometimes assembled at this solemnity; and hundreds of corpses, brought from their temporary resting-places, were inhumed in one common pit.
From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James
Alas! who ever knew Sorrow in all its shapes, leafy and plumed, Or in gross husks of brutes eternally inhumed?
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
Is his soul ground down with compunction by recollecting the inhumed Neville, doomed by him and his rebel partizans to shelter with the dead.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane
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