inhumation
noun/ɪn.hjuːˈmeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From inhume + -ation.
1
The act of burial.
- "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Sep 2010:
- Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations.2010 March 10, Eti Bonn-Muller, “Dynasty of Priestesses”, in archaeology.org, retrieved 10 Sep 2010:
2
The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
3
Medicine, Sciences Arenation.
- Synonyms
- burial, entombment, interment
- Antonyms
- disinterment, exhumation
- Derived terms
- inhumationist