inhumation

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/

Noun

inhumation

1. The act of burial.
   • 1885, "Cremation or Burial ↗," New York Times, 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):

     "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.

   • 2010, Eti Bonn-Muller, "Dynasty of Priestesses ↗," archaeology.org, 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):

     Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.

2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
3. (medicine) arenation

Synonyms

• burial, entombment, interment

Antonyms

• disinterment, exhumation

Translations

• French: inhumation
• German: Inhumation (archeological), Erdbestattung, Beerdigung
• Spanish: inhumación (archeological), entierro

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