burial-place

  • 11Burial ground — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… …

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  • 12Burial service — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 13their burial place is unknown — the place where they are buried remains a mystery, their bodies/corpses were not found …

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  • 14Burial — This article is about human burial practices. For other uses, see Burial (disambiguation). Inhume redirects here. for the band, see Inhume (band). Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by… …

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  • 15burial — /ber ee euhl/, n. 1. the act or ceremony of burying. 2. the place of burying; grave. [1200 50; BURY + AL2; r. ME buriel, back formation from OE byrgels burial place, equiv. to byrg(an) to BURY + els n. suffix; cf. RIDDLE1] * * * Ritual disposal… …

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  • 16Burial —    The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron four hundred shekels of silver current money with the… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 17Burial places of founders of world religions — This article identifies the burial places of founders of world religions. Bahá í FaithLocated in Bahji near Acre, Israel, the Shrine of Bahá u lláh is the most holy place for Bahá ís and their Qiblih, or direction of prayer. It contains the… …

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  • 18burial — Act or process of burying a deceased person; sepulture, interment, act of depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water. The act of interring the human dead @ burial insurance A contract based on legal consideration… …

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  • 19burial — Act or process of burying a deceased person; sepulture, interment, act of depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water. The act of interring the human dead @ burial insurance A contract based on legal consideration… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 20burial — bur|i|al [ˈberiəl] n [U and C] [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: burial place where a body is buried (13 17 centuries), from Old English byrgels] 1.) the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a ↑grave 2.) the act of burying something in the ground… …

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