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Definition of Imbalming
1. imbalm [v] - See also: imbalm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbalming
Literary usage of Imbalming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves ...: Many of which are Now First by John Greaves, Thomas Birch (1737)
"The term ufed by Herodotus, Ta.vx.tuw, of falling or imbalming the dead, is alfo
ufed :by (c) Baruch, and by (p) Plato , and by (q) Lucian in his ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1894)
"To be buried in the parish church of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, near the place
where my son was interred, without imbalming ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1809)
"... scholarly and wittily about the reformation of close-stools, and houses of
office, and spicing and imbalming their rank in l rails, that they stink not. ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... confidently promising by imbalming and waxe-cloth to preserve him without
annoyance thither, but notwithstanding this cost and their promise, his body, ..."
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