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Definition of Entombments
1. entombment [n] - See also: entombment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entombments
Literary usage of Entombments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"Zones are not bands of rock merely, for the strata of a zone may be heterogeneous
vertically or horizontally. The zones are really so many entombments of ..."
2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"A comparison of the differences of the lengths and breadths of the crania from
the earlier and later entombments, having regard to their probable errors. ..."
3. The Early Records of the Town of Providence by Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners (1904)
"All entombments of the bodies of deceased persons except in North burial ground
and Swan Point Cemetery are hereby prohibited ; provided, ..."
4. Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann, William Ewart Gladstone (1880)
"The first conclusion is that we cannot refer the five entombments in the Agora
... The second is that they are entombments of great, and almost certainly in ..."
5. The Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States by William Mark McKinney, Charles C. Moore, Peter Kemper (1922)
"... etc., 10 Congressional control over memorials and entombments, 16 Conspicuously
distinguished military or naval service as test of right to memorial, ..."
6. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1892)
""Innocence," at last, after many entombments of lacerated carcases, which the
Emperor had himself witnessed, was sent unharmed back to the woods as having ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"They are, respectively, a list of the entombments of Roman bishops from Lucius
to Sylvester (253-335), with the place of their burial, and a Depositio ..."
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