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Definition of Exhumed
1. exhume [v] - See also: exhume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhumed
Literary usage of Exhumed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"The body of the daughter was accordingly exhumed. ... The medical examination of
the exhumed body showed that all the fleshy parts of the body were ..."
2. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"The succeeding rector, Isaac Rushworth, had the body exhumed. and exhibited to
the crowd, but many remained unconvinced, ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"1 Chemistry of Poisons states that strychnine has never been found in an exhumed
human body after a longer period of burial than forty-three days. ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"I signified my full acceptance of the offered peace, and great was my surprise
soon af'er to find that, unmindful of the understood compact, he had exhumed ..."
5. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"He was buried in the Hunds- thurm Church yard, close to the suburb in which he
had lived ; but eleven years later the remains were exhumed by order of ..."
6. The Phantom World: Or, The Philosophy of Spirits, Apparitions, &c by Augustin Calmet (1850)
"... exhumed IN PRESENCE OF MONSIEUR DE ... MONSIEUR PITTON DE TOURNEFORT relates
the manner in which they exhumed a pretended ..."
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