| 单词 | extended burial |
| 释义 | > as lemmasextended burial b. Of an arm, spear, etc.: Outstretched. Of a corpse: buried at full length; extended burial, burial in which the corpse is laid at full length. Some of the examples are participial rather than adjectival. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [adjective] > with corpse in specific posture > of corpse extended1875 flexed1915 1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 48 The Youth surround her with extended Spears. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 398/2 At the chief's head lay the skeleton of a female..extended upon a sheet of pure gold. 1939 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 3) xvi. 277 The dead were generally buried, contracted or extended, in the settlements. 1952 V. G. Childe New Light on Most Anc. East (ed. 4) ix. 187 At Harappa these are represented only by extended and flexed burials in Cemetery H. 1960 K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land ix. 227 The burials appear to have been extended, lying on their backs. < as lemmas |
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