vermiculation

• "No, no," contended Susanna, arresting her sunshade in the midst of an intricate vermiculation. —  The Lady Paramount
• It is not, though this be _exitus à morte_: it is _introitus in mortem_; though it be an issue from manifold deaths of this world, yet it is an entrance into the death of corruption and putrefaction, and vermiculation, and incineration, and dispersion in and from the grave, in which every dead man dies over again. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
• _but we shall all be changed in an instant_, we shall have a dissolution, and in the same instant a redintegration, a recompacting of body and soul, and that shall be truly a death and truly a resurrection, but no sleeping in corruption; but for us that die now and sleep in the state of the dead, we must all pass this posthume death, this death after death, nay, this death after burial, this dissolution after dissolution, this death of corruption and putrefaction, of vermiculation and incineration, of dissolution and dispersion in and from the grave, when these bodies that have been the children of royal parents, and the parents of royal children, must say with Job, _Corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister_. —  Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms