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Definition of Burial
1. Noun. The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave.
Generic synonyms: Funeral
Derivative terms: Bury, Entomb, Inhume, Inter
2. Noun. Concealing something under the ground.
Generic synonyms: Concealing, Concealment, Hiding
Specialized synonyms: Reburial, Reburying
Derivative terms: Bury
Definition of Burial
1. n. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.
Definition of Burial
1. Noun. The act of burying; interment ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Burial
1. the act of burying [n -S]
Medical Definition of Burial
1. The act or ceremony of putting a corpse into the ground or a vault, or into the sea. The custom of burial is primeval and omnipresent in all cultures and civilizations, generally accompanied by ceremonial rites. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burial
Literary usage of Burial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"burial, CHRISTIAN, the interment of a deceased person with ecclesiastical ...
That the early Christians from the beginning used only burial seems certain. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The openings to the subterranean burial-places are either vertical or horizontal.
... The principal difference between the known Christian burial-places of ..."
3. Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependents (1993)
"burial Flags VA provides an American flag to drape the casket of a veteran ...
Reimbursement of burial Expenses VA will pay a burial allowance up to $1500 ..."
4. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"This exposition hath that great advantage, that he which first mentioned this
descent in the Creed, did interpret it of the burial ; and where this Article ..."
5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1875)
"THE burial OF H ABOLD. I HAVE quoted in the notes those passages of the contemporary
writers which distinctly assert a burial of Harold on the rocks at ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1880)
"burial OF THE DEAD.—The third in the series of Introductions to the study of the
North American Indians, issued by the Bureau of Ethnology of the ..."
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