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单词 incremation
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incremationn.

/ɪnkriːˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology: < in- prefix3 + cremation n., < Latin type *incremāre : see incremable adj.
Now rare or Obsolete.
Burning, esp. of a dead body; = cremation n. (which is now the usual word).
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun]
combustion?1611
cremation1623
incremation1826
incineration1880
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxiv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 224 I hope you will improve that department, notwithstanding your order of incremation.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. iv ‘Shall we take him to the publisher's or make an auto-da-fé of him?’ ‘I don't see what is the good of incremation’, Warrington said.
1851 R. R. Madden Shrines Old & New World I. 44 The mode of incremation which was most followed by the Greeks.
1866 T. H. Huxley in S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 127 Cistic tombs..constructed according to the customs of incremation.
1870 Echo 4 Nov. An article on Incremation as opposed to Interment, is worthy of attention, the case made out being one of considerable strength.
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