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inhumation|ɪnhjuːˈmeɪʃən|
[n. of action f. L. inhumāre (see prec. and -ation). Cf. F. inhumation (15–16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.); med.L. had prob. *inhumātio.]
1. The action or practice of burying in the ground; the fact or condition of being buried; interment, burial of the dead (in quot. 1665 of the living).
1636R. Brathwait Rom. Emp. 379 The manner of his death and inhumation I read not of. 1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. i. 2 The soberest Nations have rested it two wayes, of simple inhumation and burning. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 18 Death, by the Sword, was threatned unto Men, and to Women Inhumation, or Burial alive. 1760Burn Eccl. Law (1767) I. 233 (Jod.) The place of inhumation was without the walls. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. iii. 73 Simple inhumation, is the most ancient of all modes of disposing of the dead. 1880Dawkins Early Man x. 367 Cremation, however, did not altogether abolish the older practice of inhumation.
2. The burying of a thing under ground.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iv. 65 Most plants, though green above-ground, maintain their original white below it..Green..[being] separable in many upon ligature or inhumation. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 353 We must conclude, that the origin of a large part of the covering of Herculaneum was long subsequent to the first inhumation of the place.
fig.1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 442 We curse it [the revival of letters], as the inhumation of European originality in works of genius for ever. 1824Jas. Mill in Westm. Rev. I. 223 The opposition party had only begun to effect a resurrection from that inhumation which it suffered from the aristocratical terrors engendered by the French revolution.
†3. An obsolete chemical process: see quots.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 272 Inhumation is the setting of two pots (the head of the uppermost being very well covered and luted, with his bottome boared full of little pin-holes, and sure fastened to that which is underneath in the ground) and burying them with earth to a certain depth, having a circular fire made for distillatory transudation per descensum. 1650Ashmole Chym. Collect. 22 And therefore we distill them..But we doe it sweetly and with inhumation, lest the excessive Fire consume the sought for subtilties. |