Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Interment; inhumation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Interment; inhumation.
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- noun archaic
burial ,internment ,inhumation ; by association,death
Etymologies
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Latin humatio, French humare "to inter", compare French humus "earth"
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Examples
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Chap. 617. 691 humation, and transportation to the United States of such bodies of Massachusetts dead as are to be transported.
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Chap. 617. 691 humation, and transportation to the United States of such bodies of Massachusetts dead as are to be transported.
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