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concremation rare.|kɒnkriːˈmeɪʃən|
[ad. L. concremātiōn-em, n. of action f. concremāre to burn up, consume, f. con- altogether + cremāre to burn. In sense 1, con- is taken in the sense ‘together’.]
1. Burning together; spec. the burning alive of a widow on the funeral pyre with her dead husband.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1755Johnson, Concremation, the act of burning many things together. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 359 The mode of concremation is various: in Bengal, the living and dead bodies are stretched on a pile. 1867F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. New Ser. iii. 184 He intended, no less than the self-cremation of males, the concremation of females.
2. Burning to ashes, consumption by fire.
1860Gen. P. Thomson Audi Alt. III. cxxxiv. 103 Not..that it is equal to burning the Anti-Pædobaptist; but..the same in kind, only..to the pains of concremation. 1888H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisit. I. 308 Publicly scourged and banished by the abbot in spite of a popular demand for concremation. |