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单词 concremation
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concremationn.

/kɒnkriːˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin concremātiōn-em, noun of action < concremāre to burn up, consume, < con- altogether + cremāre to burn. In sense 1, con- is taken in the sense ‘together’.
rare.
1. Burning together; spec. the burning alive of a widow on the funeral pyre with her dead husband.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > together
concremation1727
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Concrematio, a burning together.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Concremation, the act of burning many things together.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. xi. 359 The mode of concremation is various: in Bengal, the living and dead bodies are stretched on a pile.
1867 F. 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.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > consumption by fire > to ashes
incinerationa1529
incinderment1609
calcination1616
cinefaction1617
calcining1651
concremation1860
ashing1937
1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxxxiv. 103 Not..that it is equal to burning the Anti-Pædobaptist; but..the same in kind, only..to the pains of concremation.
1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages I. vii. 308 Publicly scourged and banished by the abbot in spite of a popular demand for concremation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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