单词 | reinter |
释义 | reinterv. transitive. To inter again. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)] > rebury rebury1584 re-entomb?1594 retomb1605 reinter1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Renterrer, to reinterre, to burie againe. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 20 To Jerusalem..they convey the bones of their dead friends from all places to be reinterred. 1675 A. Marvell Let. 24 July in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 342 The old King's Body was to be taken up,..and to be reinterred with great Magnificence. 1788 J. Ledyard Jrnl. 13 Apr. in Journey through Russia (1966) 225 He..takes up his dead Friend.., carries him however putrified on his..back to some place..& reinters him. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. li. 423 The dead bodies were then exhumed and re-interred. 1888 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 1 58 Then they reinterred the body. 1928 F. E. Hardy Early Life T. Hardy iii. 58 He had just returned from visiting the site on which all the removed bodies were said by the company to be reinterred. 1977 National Geographic June 874/2 The body is re-interred, there to rest until the next famadihana , the turning of the dead. 2004 A. D. Renteln Cultural Def. ix. 179 The decision to reinter the body in its originally intended place occurred in consultation with the family. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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