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Definition of Rebury
1. Verb. Bury again. "After the king's body had been exhumed and tested to traces of poison, it was reburied in the same spot"
Definition of Rebury
1. v. t. To bury again.
Definition of Rebury
1. Verb. bury again ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rebury
1. bury [v -BURIED, -BURYING, -BURIES] - See also: bury
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebury
Literary usage of Rebury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Behind the Red Line: Political Repression in Sudan by Jemera Rone, Brian Owsley, Human Rights Watch/Africa (1996)
"... for alleged involvement in a coup attempt; disclose to their families the
locations of their graves and permit the families to rebury these officers. ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"Some years after the death of a big chief, the people of Mumia's dig up the bones,
wash them with ceremony, killing oxen, etc., and then rebury the remains ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"The eastern Iroquois, at least after the formation of their league, did not rebury
their dead. They used raised tombs, sometimes a mound of earth, ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... dug lately from that ground, — and waits for an opportunity to rebury them there.
Sound effectual grinders, one of them very large; •which ate their ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"REBUS, (rft'-bns) it. «. A word or name represented by things ; a sort of riddle.
To rebury, (re-bur'-re) ua To inter again. ..."
6. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"... primitive customs as often as possible, but took out those whom they had been
obliged to inhume after Christian rites, to rebury them at such places and ..."
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