intermentn.
/ɪnˈtəːmənt/ The action of interring or burying in the earth; burial.
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c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 327 After þe enterment þe kyng tok his way To þe South.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 319 In worship of her susters minde She made a riche enterement.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 140/2 Entyrement, or yntyrment, funerale.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 39 His interrement shuld not be withstoode.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 111 The solemn rites after my enterrement.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxxvi. 368 At the interrement of the Dutchess.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vi. 138 The body was..carried on an open bier to the place of interment.
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi iii. 266 The solemnity of the interment, agreeably to the ritual of the Spanish Church.
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