unputrefied

For all human things do require to have an Ideal in them; to have some Soul in them, as we said, were it only to keep the Body unputrefied.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Soul in them, as we said, were it only to keep the Body unputrefied.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

Bede relates many miracles performed at his tomb; and adds, that eleven years after his death, the monks taking up his body, instead of dust which they expected, found it unputrefied, with the joints pliable, and the clothes fresh and entire. [

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler