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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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 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 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
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
The Monk of Angouleme declares that he was inhumed in his imperial robes, and that the pilgrim's wallet which he wore on his journeys to Rome was also consigned with his body to the tomb.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832 by Various
The whole nation was sometimes assembled at this solemnity; and hundreds of corpses, brought from their temporary resting-places, were inhumed in one capacious pit.
From The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman
The people of the Dipylon period sometimes cremated, sometimes inhumed, but they built no barrow over the dead.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
In this magnificent cavern, Ibrahim, as it were, inhumed his son, together with his governess, of whose care, and fidelity he had no doubt.
From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian
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
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