Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inhumation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inhumation \In`hu*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. inhumation.]
1. The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
2. (Old Chem.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in
order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat;
the state of being thus exposed.
3. (Med.) Arenation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inhumation
n : the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: {burial}, {entombment},
{interment}, {sepulture}]
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