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Definition of Interment
1. Noun. The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave.
Generic synonyms: Funeral
Derivative terms: Bury, Entomb, Inhume, Inter
Definition of Interment
1. n. The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.
Definition of Interment
1. Noun. The act of burying a dead body; burial. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Interment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interment
Literary usage of Interment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"An Ancient British Interment. By FT ELWORTHY. The author exhibited photographs
of an ancient British interment discovered on August 29, 1896, ..."
2. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1900)
"CHAPTER XI Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin, ...
All these came to the interment. But of all these twelve kings King Arthur ..."
3. Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Period of the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob (1874)
"Interment brought into practice by Christianity.—The Wrapping of the Dead in
Shrouds.—The Direction in which the Bodies were laid.—Absolution Crosses. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1845)
"CRK ART. XI.—Interment in Towns. A Supplementary Report on the results of a
special inquiry into the practice of Interment in ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"The plaintiff again telegraphed by the Postal Company to his father, who arrived
between 9 and 10 am Preparations were made, and the interment took place ..."
6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Interment in the wall-recess or loculus, though infinitely tbc most common, was
not the only mode employed in the catacombs FIG. 4.—Loculi. (From de Rossi. ..."
7. The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times by Richard Robert Madden (1842)
"Previous to his interment, the street in which he had resided was beset by a
multitude of people—in fact, for some days, the neighbourhood of Ely Place ..."
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