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Definition of Cinerarium
1. Noun. A niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead.
Definition of Cinerarium
1. Noun. A place or receptacle for depositing the ashes of cremated people ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cinerarium
1. [n -RIA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinerarium
Literary usage of Cinerarium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club by Rhymers' Club (London, England) (1894)
"AD cinerarium WHO in this small urn reposes, Celt or Roman, man or woman, Steel
of steel, or rose of roses ? Whose the dust set rustling slightly, ..."
2. The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia by William James Perry (1918)
"After cremation the Khasi take the ashes of their dead to the clan cinerarium.
When this ceremony is about to be performed the bones are placed temporarily ..."
3. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine by Edward Hungerford Goddard, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (1875)
"No 82 had a cinerarium, and two simple interments of burnt bones, just under the
... 86 had also been opened ; it had a circular cist and a cinerarium. No. ..."
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