Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bone-house attached to a church or burial-place; a charnel-house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
vault orcrypt in connection with achurch , used as arepository forhuman bones disinterred from their originalburial places; acharnel house .
Etymologies
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Latin carnarium, from caro, carnis, flesh.
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Examples
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Leland's other carnary, which must not be confused with this, was attached to a chapel "on the north side of S. Mary Abbey church at
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912
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