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disentomb, v.|dɪsɪnˈtuːm|
[f. dis- 6 + entomb.]
trans. To take out of the tomb; (transf. and fig.) to take (anything) out of that in which it is buried or hidden away; to disinter, unearth.
1611Florio, Disepelire, to vnburie, disintombe. 1626T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 370 A mad vanity of Nobility of race, which causeth many to dig out, and disentombe their Grand-Sires, as it were, from the ashes of old Troy. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 96 Worlds of fine thinking lie buried in that vast abyss, never to be disentombed. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xxi. 659 A mummy..which we saw disentombed. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. 527 Mr. Freeman..disentombed a great part of the early history of England.
Hence disentombed |-ˈtuːmd|, ppl. a.; disentombment |ˈtuːmmənt|, the act of disentombing.
1859Smiles Self-Help iii. 55 The disentombment of the Nineveh marbles. 1871Fraser Life & Lett. Berkeley iii. 78 The disentombed remains of Herculaneum. |