urnedadj.
/əːnd/, U.S. /ərnd/ 1. Deposited or buried in an urn. Also figurative.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [adjective] > in specific container
urned1631
urnal1658
lead-lapped1830
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull
tedious1412
weary1549
plumbeousa1586
ungayed1670
deserta1674
prosaic1692
pedestrian1716
languishing1741
unglittering1813
prosy1837
urned1849
monotone1862
bluebooky1872
stodgy1874
pedestrial1941
1631 Earl of Manchester Contemplatio Mortis 25 Many times..the vrned bones doe meete with foule hands.
1849 T. Carlyle in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. x. 435 I know no more urned books than his. It is like the writing of a ghost.
2. Of the nature of, effected in, a cinerary urn.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [adjective] > cinerary urn
urnal1573
urned1909
1909 A. Reid Regality Kirriemuir i. 3 Urned cists, a crannog, and canoes, are among the recorded ‘finds’.
1911 J. Ward Rom. Era Brit. viii. 138 Cremation was supplanted by inhumation, but not suddenly, the skeleton followed by an urned interment implying an overlap.
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