vivisepulture

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Simple vivisepulture was and is practised by many people FN#50] Because she was weaker than a man.

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  1. The burial of a person alive. [Rare.] Pliny … speaks of the practice of vivisepulture as continued to his own time. Dean Liddell, Archæologia, XL. 243. (Davies.)

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  • Simple vivisepulture was and is practised by many people FN#50] Because she was weaker than a man. —  Arabian nights. English
  • Simple vivisepulture was and is practised by many people. —  Arabian nights. English
  • After that such words as xanthosis, vivisepulture, autochonous, ursprache and serrifine, to name a few, were winning words. —  The Union - All Categories
  • [FN#49] I am not aware that this vivisepulture of the widower is the custom of any race, but the fable would be readily suggested by the Sati (Suttee) - rite of the Hindus. —  Arabian nights. English
 

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