ossuarium

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I will not place an ossuarium in my garden for my cat, before her bones are ready to be placed in it.

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  1. Same as ossuary, 2. Among the large number of important sepulchral remains lately found by Mr. Taylor in Newgate Street were several ossuaria, or leaden vessels for the reception of the calcined borres of the dead. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 841.

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