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‖ columbarium|kɒlʌmˈbɛərɪəm|
Pl. -ia.
[L. (neut. of columbārius: see prec. and -arium), pigeon-house, also urn-sepulchre, mortise, etc.]
1. A pigeon-house, dove-cote; a pigeon-hole.
1881J. Grant Cameronians I. ii. 22 The dove-cot..was built in the form of an enormous beehive..full of columbaria for the pigeons.
2. a. Rom. Antiq. A subterranean sepulchre, having in its walls niches or holes for cinerary urns; also one of these niches or recesses.
1846C. Maitland Ch. in Catacombs 39 The niches for these, disposed round the walls and central supports, give the whole chamber the appearance of a dove-cote, whence its name of columbarium. 1859Ld. Broughton Italy I. 326 Some less illustrious ashes have been preserved..in the columbaria of the two families. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun (1878) II. xxiv. 233. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 416 Some of the sepulchral chambers..contain as many as ten niches, or columbaria, hewn out of the solid limestone.
b. A similar structure in a modern crematorium.
1899N.Y. Herald 27 July, Besides the members of the household at Walston the following persons will be admitted to the columbarium. 1923Harmsworth Househ. Encycl. II. 993/3 Columbarium. This word is used..for the building in which the urns containing the remains of cremated persons are placed. 1948E. Waugh Loved One 15 Would you require a niche in our columbarium or do you prefer to keep the remains at home? 1963J. Mitford Amer. Way Death iii. 141 He is much more likely to end up in a niche and urn in an elaborate ‘columbarium’.
3. A hole left in a wall for the insertion of the end of a beam.
1864in Webster: and in later Dicts. |