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Definition of Ossuary
1. Noun. Any receptacle for the burial of human bones.
Definition of Ossuary
1. n. A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.
Definition of Ossuary
1. Noun. A container or receptacle, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ossuary
1. a receptacle for the bones of the dead [n -ARIES]
Medical Definition of Ossuary
1. Origin: L. Ossuarium, fr. Ossuarius of or bones, fr. Os, ossis, bone: cf. F. Ossuaire. A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossuary
Literary usage of Ossuary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1876)
"By JOHN BEDDOE, MD, FBS Thie is a very large ossuary in the crypt of a church.
There is a sort of tradition that the bones are those of men slain in some ..."
2. Studies in the word-play in Plautus. by University of Pennsylvania, Charles Jastrow Mendelsohn (1897)
"PHYSICAL CHARACTERS OF THE SKELETONS FOUND IN THE INDIAN ossuary ON THE CHOPTANK
ESTUARY, MARYLAND. BY ED COPE. THE numerous parts of skeletons preserved ..."
3. Researches Upon the Antiquity of Man in the Delaware Valley and the Eastern by Henry Chapman Mercer, Edward Drinker Cope, Richard H. Harte (1897)
"The ossuary must have been made by the village inhabitant, and its construction
is in accord with the known mortuary customs of the Choctaws, Iroquois, ..."
4. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences by Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (1912)
"The site of this ossuary is a sandy field on the crest of the "Mountain Ridge",
one of the highest points of the county. Mr. Sweeney had already dug a hole ..."
5. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1911)
"... second half of the sixteenth century, and some are later still. As a rule,
they are distinguished by the extravagant richness of the FIG. 150.—ossuary ..."
6. A Tour Through the Pyrenees by Hippolyte Taine (1874)
"... they crack with a sound like a cricket's chirp ; this place is the ossuary of
some wretched maritime tribe. One tree alone can live here, the pine, ..."
7. History of Art in Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1894)
"Terra-cotta ossuary. Total height, o m., 74 ; length, o m., 96. however, imitation
is not carried into every detail, as in those funerary urns of ..."
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