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  • adjective Not cremated.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ cremated

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Examples

  • The turtles were supposed to eat the uncremated body parts, but they all disappeared shortly after being released.

    Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

  • The turtles were supposed to eat the uncremated body parts, but they all disappeared shortly after being released.

    Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006

  • And what was his reaction to the 285 uncremated bodies found in sheds, pits, caskets and underbrush near that nonworking crematory in Noble, Georgia?

    CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2002 2002

  • They'd really packed them in, back when, Forvalaka for sure, then, because Beryl buries its villains uncremated.

    The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

  • In Beryl only criminals are buried uncremated, or not buried al all.

    The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

  • There was no worse threat for a J/taal than being held in this life endlessly by an uncremated body.

    Dancer's Luck Maxwell, Ann, 1944- 1983

  • He had managed, with a heroic effort, to hold down the mounting pressure of his hilarity; but "sweet mother" (in the Savage's tremulous tone of anguish) and the reference to Tybalt lying dead, but evidently uncremated and wasting his phosphorus on a dim monument, were too much for him.

    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

  • But the uncremated Mrs. James now re-enters in widow's cap.

    Possession A Peep-Show in Paradise Laurence Housman 1912

  • He is lauded in the Vedic hymns as the explorer of "the path" or "way" to the "Land of the Pitris" (Fathers), the Paradise to which the Indian uncremated dead walked on foot.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • In late Mycenæan graves at Salamis evidences of cremation are found, and at Mouliana, in Crete, there are instances of uncremated bones being found along with bronze swords on one side of a tomb, while on the other were found an iron sword and cremated bones in a cinerary urn.

    The Sea-Kings of Crete James Baikie 1898

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