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exhumation|ɛkshjuːˈmeɪʃən|
[a. Fr. exhumation, ad. med.L. exhumātiōn-em, n. of action f. exhumā-re to exhume.]
The action or process of digging up or removing (a body, etc.) from beneath the ground. Also, an instance of this.
1797W. Seward Suppl. to Anecd. 288 Tracts relative to the exhumation in the great church at Dunkirk. 1819Southey in Q. Rev. XXI. 373 The details of this barbarous exhumation are curious. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) II. xxiv. 344 The dead body of Arsenius was, after exhumation, produced before the council of Tyre. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. II. iii. vi. 163 The exhumation of two oaken cists. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 114 Febrile affections produced by exhumations..of bodies. |