单词 | re-entomb |
释义 | re-entombv. transitive. To entomb again. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)] > rebury rebury1584 re-entomb?1594 retomb1605 reinter1611 ?1594 H. Constable Diana (new ed.) viii. iv. sig. F5v When reintombing from obliuius ages in better stanzas her surviving wonder. a1640 T. Jackson Μαραν Αθα (1657) xxxvi. 3667 Suppose we then that those mothers of Jerusalem, which re-intombed their sucking infants in their wombs, were naturally more cruel and savage than other women ordinarily are? 1656 J. Davies tr. M. de Scudéry Clelia II. ii. 42 Being advertis'd Telesis was unknown at Leontine, he would have arrested him, and would have re-entomb'd Clidimira in the Temple of Ceres. 1825 J. Giffard Abbot of Thornton 62 Brave Fabian risks the peril, takes the care, to re-intomb some mould'ring body there. 1874 Appleton's Jrnl. 28 Nov. 697/3 If it were allowed to reintomb, with regal state, the Orleans, the same privilege could scarcely be denied to the last of the Napoleons. 1930 J. W. Johnson St. Peter relates Incident iv. ii Would he, forsooth, the curious minded queried, Even in concrete re-entombed, stay buried? 1996 M. Schmitt & L. Kulzer Medieval Women Monastics v. 78 The original intention was to re-entomb her remains next to her sainted brother Willibald, the first bishop of Eichstätt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.?1594 |
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