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Definition of cerement in English: cerementnoun ˈsɪəm(ə)ntˈserəmənt mass nounhistorical Waxed cloth for wrapping a corpse. Example sentencesExamples - More dramatic yet is the tomb of General William Hargrave, also in Westminster Abbey, by Louis - Francois Roubiliac, in which the deceased is shown breaking free of his cerements, apparently already confident of his salvation.
- In an early scene, Hamlet begs the ghost to tell ‘Why thy canoniz'd bones… Have burst their cerements.’
- The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys.
- To be cured we we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead.
Synonyms winding sheet, grave clothes, burial clothes, cerements, chrisom
Origin Early 17th century (first used by Shakespeare in Hamlet, 1602): from cere (see cerecloth). Definition of cerement in US English: cerementnounˈserəmənt usually cerementshistorical Waxed cloth for wrapping a corpse. Example sentencesExamples - The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys.
- To be cured we we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead.
- More dramatic yet is the tomb of General William Hargrave, also in Westminster Abbey, by Louis - Francois Roubiliac, in which the deceased is shown breaking free of his cerements, apparently already confident of his salvation.
- In an early scene, Hamlet begs the ghost to tell ‘Why thy canoniz'd bones… Have burst their cerements.’
Synonyms winding sheet, grave clothes, burial clothes, cerements, chrisom
Origin Early 17th century (first used by Shakespeare in Hamlet, 1602): from cere (see cerecloth). |