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disinˈterment [f. disinter v. + -ment.] 1. The action of disinterring; exhumation.
1790P. Neve (title) A Narrative of the Disinterment of Milton's Coffin. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. App. 788 The disinterment of Harold's body. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 60 The disinterment of Pompeii and Herculaneum. 2. concr. The material result or product of disinterring; something disinterred.
1825W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. CVI. 526 Among the most curious disinterments are vases for heating water. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit., R. Crowley II. 150 Our most skilful delver into dramatic history, amidst his curious masses of disinterments, has brought up this proclamation. |