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

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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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Example Sentences

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inhume inhumed

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 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 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

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 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

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 Henry Christmas

In the fossiliferous strata are inhumed the remains of the floras and faunas of past ages.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

Among the Natchez the dead were either inhumed or placed in tombs.

From An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow

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 Thomas Hood

Buried he lay, where thousands before For thousands of years were inhumed on the shore; What of them is left, to tell Where they lie, and how they fell?

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

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