inurn
Americanverb
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to place (esp cremated ashes) in an urn
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a less common word for inter
Usage
What does inurn mean? To inurn is to put something in an urn, that is, a decorative vase or container. Most often, ashes of a deceased loved one are inurned in such a container.To inurn is also to inter, that is bury, a dead body, as in When our dog Scruffy died, we inurned her beneath her favorite tree in the backyard.Inurn is almost exclusively used in the context of funeral rites and cremation. Some people will have a deceased loved one inurned and then display the urn in their home as a way to remember and honor the deceased. Both people and animals may be cremated and inurned. Example: After the ashes are inurned, the container is sealed and locked so that the ashes remain in the urn.
Other Word Forms
- inurnment noun
- uninurned adjective
Etymology
Origin of inurn
Example Sentences
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May this narrow spot inurn Aught that could so beat and burn?”
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Ah, could we once ere we go, could we stand, while, to ocean descending, Sinks o'er the yellow dark plain slowly the yellow broad sun, Stand from the forest emerging at sunset, at once in the champaign, Open, but studded with trees, chestnuts umbrageous and old, E'en in those fair open fields that incurve to thy beautiful hollow, Nemi imbedded in wood, Nemi inurn'd in the hill!—
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Inurn, in-urn′, v.t. to place in an urn: to entomb.
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O flights of fond fancy that deeply inurn Sweet scenes of our childhood, no more to return!
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Nelson was once Britannia's god of war, And still should be so, but the tide is turn'd; There 's no more to be said of Trafalgar, 'T is with our hero quietly inurn'd; Because the army 's grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern'd; Besides, the prince is all for the land-service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis.
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