burialn.

Brit.

/ˈbɛrɪəl/, U.S.

/ˈbɛriəl/

Forms: Middle English biriel, Middle English–1500s beryel, beriel, buryel, buryell, buryelle, buryall, buryalle, Middle English–1500s byryall, byryele, byryelle, 1500s bereall, 1500s–1600s buriall, 1500s– burial.

Etymology: Middle English buryel, biriel, irregularly formed as a singular of byriels, buriels n.; in later times associated with nouns in -al from French, such as espousal-s.

†1. A burying place, grave, or tomb. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]

buriels854

througheOE

burianOE

graveOE

lairc1000

lair-stowc1000

lich-restc1000

pitOE

grass-bedOE

buriness1175

earth housec1200

sepulchrec1200

tombc1300

lakec1320

buriala1325

monumenta1325

burying-place1382

resting placea1387

sepulturea1387

beda1400

earth-beda1400

longhousea1400

laystow1452

lying1480

delfa1500

worms' kitchen?a1500

bier1513

laystall1527

funeral?a1534

lay-bed1541

restall1557

cellarc1560

burying-grave1599

pit-hole1602

urn1607

cell1609

hearse1610

polyandrum1627

requietory1631

burial-place1633

mortuary1654

narrow cell1686

ground-sweat1699

sacred place1728

narrow house1792

plot1852

narrow bed1854

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2488 Ðor is ðat liche in biriele don.

1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Kings xxiii. 17 And the kyng seide, What is this biriel, which Y se?

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxviii. 430 The nyghte owle hauntyth and dwellyth in buryels.

c1450 tr. Higden (1865) I. 415 There is a maruellous berielle..in Weste Wales.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. ii. 5 I beseke the sende me..vnto y^e cite of my fathers buryall [1611 sepulchres].

1612 Acts Jas. VI (1814) 499 (Jam.) And thairfore the said Revestrie was disponit to Schir James Dundas of Arnestoun knycht to be ane buriall for him and his posteritie.

figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 29 Vayling her high top lower then her ribs To kisse her buriall .

a. The act of burying; interment; funeral.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun]

burying1297

sepulture1297

intermentc1330

gravingc1340

interring1387

terment1389

earthinga1400

sepulchrea1425

burial1453

inter1513

entombing1564

sepultary1581

laying1604

tumulation1623

humation1635

inhumation1636

sepelition1637

entombment1666

tombing1818

1453 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 171 To the kyrk-wark for my beriall, xxs.

1467 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 278 The day of my beriall.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Buriall f. xxiiii* (heading) The Ordre for the buriall of the dead.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 1 I say no, she ought not to be buried In christian buriall.

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxii. 19 He shall be buried with the buriall of an asse.

1647 F. Bland Souldiers March 35 To commend his body to due burials.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Christian Burial, that performed in holy ground, and with the usual service or ceremonies of the church. Burial of an ass, Asini sepultura, an ignominious kind of burial, out of holy ground, under the gallows, or in a high way, where several roads meet, and performed by public hangmen. Such is that of suicides, excommunicated persons, etc., sometimes denoted canine burial, or burial of a dog.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 513 The body received a second burial.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [noun]

coverture1393

laina1400

coveringc1400

palliation?c1425

lainingc1440

lonea1450

hudder-mudder1461

hugger-mugger1529

concealment1565

celation1567

hugger1576

burial1596

smothering1602

suppression1651

disguisal1652

hugger-mug1654

latitancy1701

cover-up1927

wraps1939

1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. S 4^v Within my stomack shall theyr buriall haue.

1878 J. Morley Diderot II. 50 The burial of men and women alive in the cloister.

c. plural. Formerly in computations, etc. of mortality, which were based on the entries of burials: = Deaths.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll

bill of mortality1645

mortality bill1665

burialsa1687

obital1691

obituary1701

necrology1802

death roll1803

obitual1812

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. 1 The Medium of the Burials at London in the three last years..was 22337.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Burials, in computations of mortality, denote deaths, and stand opposed to births.

1782 E. Burke On Negro Code in Wks. IX. 305 Every Minister shall keep a register of births, burials and marriages.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 408 During the same months of the year 1803, the burials amounted to 238.

3. The depositing of anything under earth or water, or enclosing it in some other substance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > with or as with soil or earth

buriala1626

burying1626

inhumation1636

soiling1794

a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1635) 33 We have great lakes, both salt and fresh; we use them for burials of some natural bodies.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Some commend burials in the earth, others in wheat, to season timber when first felled, and make it of more durable use.

4. As second element in combination with nouns, as house-, ship-, tree-, urn-burial, etc.: see the first element.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

burial-cake n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > others

God's kichelc1410

christening cake1682

moon-cake1688

birthday cake1802

feast cake1845

burial-cake1864

yuan hsiao1945

1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 194 He ordered twelve dozen of burial-cakes.

burial-chamber n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun]

burial-chamber1871

1871 W. R. Alger Crit. Hist. Doctr. Future Life (new ed.) 94 Along the sides of the burial-chamber were ranged massive stone shelves.

burial-cloth n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > shroud

sheetc1000

sendala1300

sudaryc1380

winding-clotha1400

winding-sheetc1420

kellc1425

sindonc1500

shroud1570

shrouding sheet1576

cerement1604

church cloth1639

socking-sheet1691

death cloth1699

sow1763

windinga1825

burial-cloth1876

negligée1927

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 75 I had better put my burial-clothes in my portmanteau and set off at once.

burial-clothes n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > grave-clothes

grave-clothes1535

burial-clothes1570

linena1616

dead-dress1854

dead-clothes1861

1570–1 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 Rd. for the bwryall cloth of mr. peke, xvjd.

burial-feast n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > funeral feast or drinking

mouldale1440

arval1459

mould-meata1522

soul ale1577

burial-feast1579

the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > funeral feast

mouldale1440

arval1459

mould-meata1522

burial-feast1579

1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 798 They called together the people..to their buriall feastes.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 114 Our wedding cheare to a sad buriall feast .

burial-field n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun]

littenc900

charnel1377

burying-place1382

fosse?a1425

churchyard1477

golgotha1604

God's acre1605

cemetery1613

burial-place1633

dormitory1634

burying-ground1711

burial-field1743

graveyard1767

burial-ground1803

burial-yard1842

boneyard1866

Boot Hill1901

necropole1921

memorial park1927

grave-site1953

1743 R. Blair Grave 26 What is this World? What? but a spacious Burial-field unwall'd?

burial-law n.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > types of laws > [noun] > relating to burial

flannel-act1678

Woollen Act1679

burial-law1880

1880 Act 43 Vict. c. 41 Burial Laws Amendment Act.

burial-office n.

burial-procession n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > funeral procession

convoy1523

funeral1560

death train1775

burial-procession1871

1871 W. R. Alger Crit. Hist. Doctr. Future Life (new ed.) 93 Perceiving their [sc. Etruscans'] burial-processions and funeral festivals.

burial-torch n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > funeral equipment > [noun] > torch or taper

burying-light1522

burial-torch1709

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 109. ⁋1 Three Men with Burial Torches.

burial-truce n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > peace > [noun] > cessation of hostilities > suspension of hostilities > type of

truce of God1728

burial-truce1850

market-peace1872

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lvi. 120 Granting the customary burial-truce to the defeated enemy.

burial-urn n.

burial-vault n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > vault

vault1548

dormitory1634

burial-vault1766

chamber1799

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 76 A burial-vault the whole length of the church.

C2. Special combinations: Also burial-ground n., burial-place n.

burial-aisle n. an aisle in a religious building used for interments, also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > wing or aisle > [noun] > for burial

burial-aisle1820

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] > aisle in church

burial-aisle1820

1820 W. Scott Abbot III. xi. 366 To send his body and his heart to be buried in Avenel burial-aisle.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. xi. 27/1 Looks he also wistfully into the long burial-aisle of the Past.

burial-board n. a body of persons appointed by public authority to regulate burials.

burial-case n. U.S. a shaped coffin, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a corpse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin > air-tight coffin

burial-case1851

1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 191 Every possible variety in which iron can be cast, from a butt hinge to a burial case.

1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Wks. (1900) XIX. 259 I am talking about your high-toned, silver mounted burial-case.

burial club n. = burial-society n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society

Rechabite1637

friendly society1684

provident society1771

provident club1797

benefit-society1801

benefit-club1812

burial-society1812

ménage1815

burial club1848

forestry1861

tontine1871

shepherdry1900

approved society1911

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burial society

burial-society1812

burial club1848

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. vi. 109 The town must bury him; he had paid to a burial club..but by a few weeks' omission, he had forfeited his claim.

1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. x. 76 To be an established subscriber to the Burial Club was evidence of good character and social spirit.

burial-hill n. a mound erected over a grave, a tumulus, barrow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > mound

loweOE

barrowc1000

motea1522

burial-hillc1600

law1607

mound1635

tumulus1686

tor1794

burial-mound1854

grave-mound1859

grave1863

how1947

c1600 J. Norden Speculum Brit. (1728) Cornw. 70 He was a digging a borowe or buriall hill.

burial-mound n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > mound

loweOE

barrowc1000

motea1522

burial-hillc1600

law1607

mound1635

tumulus1686

tor1794

burial-mound1854

grave-mound1859

grave1863

how1947

1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters 210 Stumbling among burial-mounds and tombstones, he had toppled into an open grave.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iii. 63 The tumuli, or ancient burial-mounds.

burial permit n. U.S. a certificate authorizing the burial of a deceased person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burial permit

burial permit1888

1888 St. Louis Globe Democrat (Farmer) Yesterday's Burial Permits.

1908 Daily Chron. 22 May 1/3 The case..has developed sensational features through the refusal of the authorities to grant a burial permit.

burial-service n. a religious service accompanying a burial; a form of words prescribed by ecclesiastical authority to be used at funerals; esp. that used in the Church of England.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > religious rites > [noun] > funeral service

funeral1621

burial-service1726

dead-office1858

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 132 If it be not..prohibited..by a Rubrick of the Burial-Service.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 88 The reverend gentleman..read as much of the burial service as could be compressed into four minutes.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xxviii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 379 The faces were not hard at this funeral; the burial-service was not a hollow form.

burial-society n. an insurance society for providing money for the expenses of burial.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society

Rechabite1637

friendly society1684

provident society1771

provident club1797

benefit-society1801

benefit-club1812

burial-society1812

ménage1815

burial club1848

forestry1861

tontine1871

shepherdry1900

approved society1911

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burial society

burial-society1812

burial club1848

1812 in C. S. Davies Hist. Macclesfield (1961) iv. 180 Sick and burial societies which are the germ of revolution.

1850 Rep. Extramural Sepulture 63 in Parl. Papers XXI. 575 Mr. George Downing, a mechanic and secretary to a burial society,..represents the sentiments prevalent among persons of his own class on this subject.

burial-stone n. a stone on a grave, a tomb-stone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > stone covering grave

stone1303

gravestone1387

through-stonea1400

througha1425

burial-stone?a1500

trough1501

ledgerc1510

tombstone?1520

lair-stone1538

humeta1647

plank1660

ledger-stone1851

flatstone1855

grave-cover1875

hogback1889

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 756 Hoc poliandrum, a byryelston.

1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 117 Engraven on this burial-stone Two hands together clasped you view.

burial-yard n. burial-ground, grave-yard.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun]

littenc900

charnel1377

burying-place1382

fosse?a1425

churchyard1477

golgotha1604

God's acre1605

cemetery1613

burial-place1633

dormitory1634

burying-ground1711

burial-field1743

graveyard1767

burial-ground1803

burial-yard1842

boneyard1866

Boot Hill1901

necropole1921

memorial park1927

grave-site1953

1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 33 The same authority demands a burial-yard rate.

Derivatives

ˈburialer n. one who assists at a burial.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burier > one assisting at burial

burialer1832

1832 Hogg in Fraser's Mag. VI. 166 The burialers..were lying powerless..beside the corpse of their dead relative.

Draft additions September 2008

burial plot n. a plot containing a grave or graves; (now usually) a plot within a cemetery, esp. one designated for the use of a particular family.

ΚΠ

1580 T. N. tr. P. Mexía Pleasaunt Dialogue sig. A.iii The Mahomettes, which wander toward theyr holy place Mecha, which is the buryall plotte of theyr Aduocate and false Prophete Mahomet.

1769 H. Gideon City Remembrancer I. 252 The chapel was afterwards converted into a dwelling house, and the burial plot into a garden.

1852 C. Lanman Private Life D. Webster 82 At the back of the family burial-plot is the tomb, of rough-hewn, massive granite.

1902 Times 31 Mar. 4/6 They had, he said, no burial plots for Freemasons or Orangemen, and this man must have been smuggled into the cemetery as a Protestant.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 June c3/1 (advt.) They also claimed that the Defendants plotted and sold burial plots with insufficient space so there was inadequate room to place bodies in their proper locations.

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单词	burial
释义	burialn. Brit. /ˈbɛrɪəl/, U.S. /ˈbɛriəl/ Forms: Middle English biriel, Middle English–1500s beryel, beriel, buryel, buryell, buryelle, buryall, buryalle, Middle English–1500s byryall, byryele, byryelle, 1500s bereall, 1500s–1600s buriall, 1500s– burial. Etymology: Middle English buryel, biriel, irregularly formed as a singular of byriels, buriels n.; in later times associated with nouns in -al from French, such as espousal-s. †1. A burying place, grave, or tomb. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] buriels854 througheOE burianOE graveOE lairc1000 lair-stowc1000 lich-restc1000 pitOE grass-bedOE buriness1175 earth housec1200 sepulchrec1200 tombc1300 lakec1320 buriala1325 monumenta1325 burying-place1382 resting placea1387 sepulturea1387 beda1400 earth-beda1400 longhousea1400 laystow1452 lying1480 delfa1500 worms' kitchen?a1500 bier1513 laystall1527 funeral?a1534 lay-bed1541 restall1557 cellarc1560 burying-grave1599 pit-hole1602 urn1607 cell1609 hearse1610 polyandrum1627 requietory1631 burial-place1633 mortuary1654 narrow cell1686 ground-sweat1699 sacred place1728 narrow house1792 plot1852 narrow bed1854 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2488 Ðor is ðat liche in biriele don. 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Kings xxiii. 17 And the kyng seide, What is this biriel, which Y se? 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. xxviii. 430 The nyghte owle hauntyth and dwellyth in buryels. c1450 tr. Higden (1865) I. 415 There is a maruellous berielle..in Weste Wales. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. ii. 5 I beseke the sende me..vnto y^e cite of my fathers buryall [1611 sepulchres]. 1612 Acts Jas. VI (1814) 499 (Jam.) And thairfore the said Revestrie was disponit to Schir James Dundas of Arnestoun knycht to be ane buriall for him and his posteritie. figurative.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 29 Vayling her high top lower then her ribs To kisse her buriall . View more context for this quotation 2. a. The act of burying; interment; funeral. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] burying1297 sepulture1297 intermentc1330 gravingc1340 interring1387 terment1389 earthinga1400 sepulchrea1425 burial1453 inter1513 entombing1564 sepultary1581 laying1604 tumulation1623 humation1635 inhumation1636 sepelition1637 entombment1666 tombing1818 1453 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 171 To the kyrk-wark for my beriall, xxs. 1467 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 278 The day of my beriall. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Buriall f. xxiiii* (heading) The Ordre for the buriall of the dead. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 1 I say no, she ought not to be buried In christian buriall. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxii. 19 He shall be buried with the buriall of an asse. View more context for this quotation 1647 F. Bland Souldiers March 35 To commend his body to due burials. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Christian Burial, that performed in holy ground, and with the usual service or ceremonies of the church. Burial of an ass, Asini sepultura, an ignominious kind of burial, out of holy ground, under the gallows, or in a high way, where several roads meet, and performed by public hangmen. Such is that of suicides, excommunicated persons, etc., sometimes denoted canine burial, or burial of a dog. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 513 The body received a second burial. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [noun] coverture1393 laina1400 coveringc1400 palliation?c1425 lainingc1440 lonea1450 hudder-mudder1461 hugger-mugger1529 concealment1565 celation1567 hugger1576 burial1596 smothering1602 suppression1651 disguisal1652 hugger-mug1654 latitancy1701 cover-up1927 wraps1939 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. S 4^v Within my stomack shall theyr buriall haue. 1878 J. Morley Diderot II. 50 The burial of men and women alive in the cloister. c. plural. Formerly in computations, etc. of mortality, which were based on the entries of burials: = Deaths. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll bill of mortality1645 mortality bill1665 burialsa1687 obital1691 obituary1701 necrology1802 death roll1803 obitual1812 a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. 1 The Medium of the Burials at London in the three last years..was 22337. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Burials, in computations of mortality, denote deaths, and stand opposed to births. 1782 E. Burke On Negro Code in Wks. IX. 305 Every Minister shall keep a register of births, burials and marriages. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 408 During the same months of the year 1803, the burials amounted to 238. 3. The depositing of anything under earth or water, or enclosing it in some other substance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > with or as with soil or earth buriala1626 burying1626 inhumation1636 soiling1794 a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1635) 33 We have great lakes, both salt and fresh; we use them for burials of some natural bodies. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Some commend burials in the earth, others in wheat, to season timber when first felled, and make it of more durable use. 4. As second element in combination with nouns, as house-, ship-, tree-, urn-burial, etc.: see the first element. Compounds C1. General attributive. burial-cake n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > others God's kichelc1410 christening cake1682 moon-cake1688 birthday cake1802 feast cake1845 burial-cake1864 yuan hsiao1945 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 194 He ordered twelve dozen of burial-cakes. burial-chamber n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] burial-chamber1871 1871 W. R. Alger Crit. Hist. Doctr. Future Life (new ed.) 94 Along the sides of the burial-chamber were ranged massive stone shelves. burial-cloth n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > shroud sheetc1000 sendala1300 sudaryc1380 winding-clotha1400 winding-sheetc1420 kellc1425 sindonc1500 shroud1570 shrouding sheet1576 cerement1604 church cloth1639 socking-sheet1691 death cloth1699 sow1763 windinga1825 burial-cloth1876 negligée1927 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 75 I had better put my burial-clothes in my portmanteau and set off at once. burial-clothes n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying or wrapping in shroud > grave-clothes grave-clothes1535 burial-clothes1570 linena1616 dead-dress1854 dead-clothes1861 1570–1 Old City Acct. Bk. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1886) 43 Rd. for the bwryall cloth of mr. peke, xvjd. burial-feast n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > funeral feast or drinking mouldale1440 arval1459 mould-meata1522 soul ale1577 burial-feast1579 the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > funeral feast mouldale1440 arval1459 mould-meata1522 burial-feast1579 1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 798 They called together the people..to their buriall feastes. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iv. 114 Our wedding cheare to a sad buriall feast . View more context for this quotation burial-field n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] littenc900 charnel1377 burying-place1382 fosse?a1425 churchyard1477 golgotha1604 God's acre1605 cemetery1613 burial-place1633 dormitory1634 burying-ground1711 burial-field1743 graveyard1767 burial-ground1803 burial-yard1842 boneyard1866 Boot Hill1901 necropole1921 memorial park1927 grave-site1953 1743 R. Blair Grave 26 What is this World? What? but a spacious Burial-field unwall'd? burial-law n. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > relating to burial flannel-act1678 Woollen Act1679 burial-law1880 1880 Act 43 Vict. c. 41 Burial Laws Amendment Act. burial-office n. burial-procession n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > funeral procession convoy1523 funeral1560 death train1775 burial-procession1871 1871 W. R. Alger Crit. Hist. Doctr. Future Life (new ed.) 93 Perceiving their [sc. Etruscans'] burial-processions and funeral festivals. burial-torch n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > funeral equipment > [noun] > torch or taper burying-light1522 burial-torch1709 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 109. ⁋1 Three Men with Burial Torches. burial-truce n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > [noun] > cessation of hostilities > suspension of hostilities > type of truce of God1728 burial-truce1850 market-peace1872 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VII. ii. lvi. 120 Granting the customary burial-truce to the defeated enemy. burial-urn n. burial-vault n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > vault vault1548 dormitory1634 burial-vault1766 chamber1799 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 76 A burial-vault the whole length of the church. C2. Special combinations: Also burial-ground n., burial-place n. burial-aisle n. an aisle in a religious building used for interments, also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > wing or aisle > [noun] > for burial burial-aisle1820 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] > aisle in church burial-aisle1820 1820 W. Scott Abbot III. xi. 366 To send his body and his heart to be buried in Avenel burial-aisle. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. xi. 27/1 Looks he also wistfully into the long burial-aisle of the Past. burial-board n. a body of persons appointed by public authority to regulate burials. burial-case n. U.S. a shaped coffin, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a corpse. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin > air-tight coffin burial-case1851 1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 191 Every possible variety in which iron can be cast, from a butt hinge to a burial case. 1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Wks. (1900) XIX. 259 I am talking about your high-toned, silver mounted burial-case. burial club n. = burial-society n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society Rechabite1637 friendly society1684 provident society1771 provident club1797 benefit-society1801 benefit-club1812 burial-society1812 ménage1815 burial club1848 forestry1861 tontine1871 shepherdry1900 approved society1911 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burial society burial-society1812 burial club1848 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. vi. 109 The town must bury him; he had paid to a burial club..but by a few weeks' omission, he had forfeited his claim. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger i. x. 76 To be an established subscriber to the Burial Club was evidence of good character and social spirit. burial-hill n. a mound erected over a grave, a tumulus, barrow. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > mound loweOE barrowc1000 motea1522 burial-hillc1600 law1607 mound1635 tumulus1686 tor1794 burial-mound1854 grave-mound1859 grave1863 how1947 c1600 J. Norden Speculum Brit. (1728) Cornw. 70 He was a digging a borowe or buriall hill. burial-mound n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > mound loweOE barrowc1000 motea1522 burial-hillc1600 law1607 mound1635 tumulus1686 tor1794 burial-mound1854 grave-mound1859 grave1863 how1947 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters 210 Stumbling among burial-mounds and tombstones, he had toppled into an open grave. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iii. 63 The tumuli, or ancient burial-mounds. burial permit n. U.S. a certificate authorizing the burial of a deceased person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burial permit burial permit1888 1888 St. Louis Globe Democrat (Farmer) Yesterday's Burial Permits. 1908 Daily Chron. 22 May 1/3 The case..has developed sensational features through the refusal of the authorities to grant a burial permit. burial-service n. a religious service accompanying a burial; a form of words prescribed by ecclesiastical authority to be used at funerals; esp. that used in the Church of England. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > religious rites > [noun] > funeral service funeral1621 burial-service1726 dead-office1858 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 132 If it be not..prohibited..by a Rubrick of the Burial-Service. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 88 The reverend gentleman..read as much of the burial service as could be compressed into four minutes. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xxviii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 379 The faces were not hard at this funeral; the burial-service was not a hollow form. burial-society n. an insurance society for providing money for the expenses of burial. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society Rechabite1637 friendly society1684 provident society1771 provident club1797 benefit-society1801 benefit-club1812 burial-society1812 ménage1815 burial club1848 forestry1861 tontine1871 shepherdry1900 approved society1911 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burial society burial-society1812 burial club1848 1812 in C. S. Davies Hist. Macclesfield (1961) iv. 180 Sick and burial societies which are the germ of revolution. 1850 Rep. Extramural Sepulture 63 in Parl. Papers XXI. 575 Mr. George Downing, a mechanic and secretary to a burial society,..represents the sentiments prevalent among persons of his own class on this subject. burial-stone n. a stone on a grave, a tomb-stone. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > stone covering grave stone1303 gravestone1387 through-stonea1400 througha1425 burial-stone?a1500 trough1501 ledgerc1510 tombstone?1520 lair-stone1538 humeta1647 plank1660 ledger-stone1851 flatstone1855 grave-cover1875 hogback1889 ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 756 Hoc poliandrum, a byryelston. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 117 Engraven on this burial-stone Two hands together clasped you view. burial-yard n. burial-ground, grave-yard. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] littenc900 charnel1377 burying-place1382 fosse?a1425 churchyard1477 golgotha1604 God's acre1605 cemetery1613 burial-place1633 dormitory1634 burying-ground1711 burial-field1743 graveyard1767 burial-ground1803 burial-yard1842 boneyard1866 Boot Hill1901 necropole1921 memorial park1927 grave-site1953 1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 33 The same authority demands a burial-yard rate. Derivatives ˈburialer n. one who assists at a burial. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burier > one assisting at burial burialer1832 1832 Hogg in Fraser's Mag. VI. 166 The burialers..were lying powerless..beside the corpse of their dead relative. Draft additions September 2008 burial plot n. a plot containing a grave or graves; (now usually) a plot within a cemetery, esp. one designated for the use of a particular family. ΚΠ 1580 T. N. tr. P. Mexía Pleasaunt Dialogue sig. A.iii The Mahomettes, which wander toward theyr holy place Mecha, which is the buryall plotte of theyr Aduocate and false Prophete Mahomet. 1769 H. Gideon City Remembrancer I. 252 The chapel was afterwards converted into a dwelling house, and the burial plot into a garden. 1852 C. Lanman Private Life D. Webster 82 At the back of the family burial-plot is the tomb, of rough-hewn, massive granite. 1902 Times 31 Mar. 4/6 They had, he said, no burial plots for Freemasons or Orangemen, and this man must have been smuggled into the cemetery as a Protestant. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 June c3/1 (advt.) They also claimed that the Defendants plotted and sold burial plots with insufficient space so there was inadequate room to place bodies in their proper locations. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1325
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