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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The burial of a person alive.

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  1. n. The practice of burying someone alive.

Examples

  • “Simple vivisepulture was and is practised by many people.”

    Arabian nights. English

  • “[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

  • “After that such words as xanthosis, vivisepulture, autochonous, ursprache and serrifine, to name a few, were winning words.”

    The Union - All Categories

  • “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.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “283 As in most hot climates so in Egypt the dead are buried at once despite the risk of vivisepulture.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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  • whichbe Burying alive. May 11, 2008

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