• Inhumation

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/

    Origin

    From inhume + -ation

    Full definition of inhumation

    Noun

    inhumation

    (plural inhumations)
    1. The act of burial.
      • 1885, "Cremation or Burial," New York Times, 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):"Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
      • 2010, Eti Bonn-Muller, "Dynasty of Priestesses," archaeology.org, 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.
    2. 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. (medicine) arenation
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