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Definition of Cinerary
1. Adjective. Containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead. "A cinerary urn"
Definition of Cinerary
1. a. Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
Definition of Cinerary
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or containing ashes, especially those of a cremated person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cinerary
1. used for cremated ashes [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinerary
Literary usage of Cinerary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1882)
"The largo cinerary urn now exhibited (see woodcut) was found on the 2nd January
1882, in the course of ploughing a gravel mound, in a field cinerary Urn ..."
2. Grave-mounds and Their Contents: A Manual of Archaeology, as Exemplified in by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (1870)
"cinerary urns are, therefore, almost the only known productions of the Saxon
potteries, ... The shapes of the cinerary urns are somewhat peculiar, ..."
3. Annals of Duddingston and Portobello by William Baird (1898)
"They all contained burnt bones and ashes, and are therefore cinerary urns, ...
They are the usual form of the cinerary urns of the Bronze age—the lower part ..."
4. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Donald Moore, Thomas Rowland Powel (1902)
"cinerary urn from Cold Kirby (W. Greenwell's British Barrows, No. ... cinerary urn
from Magdalen Bridge, Midlothian (Scotland in Pagan Times, p. 35). ..."
5. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1890)
"While workmen were removing a round tumulus by digging therefrom, metal for
road-making they came upon six cinerary urns, arranged in a straight line. ..."
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