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inhume, v.|ɪnˈhjuːm|
Also 8 enhume.
[ad. L. inhumāre (Pliny), f. in- (in-2) + humus ground, earth. Cf. F. inhumer (1413 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans. To inter, bury (the dead); to lay in the grave.
1616Bullokar Eng. Exp., Inhume, to bury. a1626Middleton Mayor Queenborough iv. ii, Here's a storm Able to wake all of our name inhumed. 1715–20Pope Iliad xxi. 376 No hand his bones shall gather, or inhume. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xvi. (1857) 369 Not a vestige..of their bodies occurred in the rocks or soils in which they had been originally inhumed.
fig.1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. xxxviii, A whole camps meat he in his gorge inhum'd. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 45, I will spare these wretches, and inhume my intended Revenge. a1845Hood Two Swans xviii, Sorrow..in gross husks of brutes eternally inhumed. 1873E. Brennan Witch of Nemi 63 While life and love are close inhumed by death.
b. transf. Of the earth or tomb: To cover (the dead). Also fig. ? Obs.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. iv. (1626) 77 Here ghosts descend, whose bodies earth inhume. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 576 Th' obscure recesses of this key-cold Tomb, Do Stokeslies ashes, and remains inhume. 1773–83Hoole Orl. Fur. xi. 242 He op'd his greedy throat that might enhume A horse and horseman in its living tomb!
2. To bury (a thing) in the ground; to cover with soil. Now rare.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vii. (1626) 130 Those in the turn'd-vp furrowes he inhumes. 1764Grainger Sugar Cane i. 256 When best to dig, and when inhume the cane. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) I. i. xiv. 316 By which the Cities were inhumed.
Hence inˈhumed ppl. a., buried.
1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. ii. lii, This their inhumed soules esteem'd their wealths. 1816G. S. Faber Orig. Pagan Idol. III. 351 He..forces, by Runic incantation, the inhumed prophetess to utterance. |