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单词 inhumation
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inhumationn.

/ɪnhjuːˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology: noun of action < Latin inhumāre (see inhumate v. and -ation suffix). Compare French inhumation (15–16th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter); medieval Latin had probably *inhumātio.
1. The action or practice of burying in the ground; the fact or condition of being buried; interment, burial of the dead (in quot. 1665 of the living).
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun]
burying1297
sepulture1297
intermentc1330
gravingc1340
interring1387
terment1389
earthinga1400
sepulchrea1425
burial1453
inter1513
entombing1564
sepultary1581
laying1604
tumulation1623
humation1635
inhumation1636
sepelition1637
entombment1666
tombing1818
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > with or as with soil or earth
buriala1626
burying1626
inhumation1636
soiling1794
1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 379 The manner of his death and inhumation I read not of.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 3 The sobrest Nations have rested in two wayes, of simple inhumation and burning.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 18 Death, by the Sword, was threatned unto Men, and to Women Inhumation, or Burial alive.
1760 R. Burn Eccl. Law (1767) I. 233 The place of inhumation was without the walls.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. i. iii. 49 Simple inhumation is the most ancient of all modes of disposing of the dead.
1880 W. B. Dawkins Early Man in Brit. x. 367 Cremation, however, did not altogether abolish the older practice of inhumation.
2. The burying of a thing under ground.
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1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iv, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 178 Most plants, though green above-ground, maintain their Originall white below it..Green..[being] separable in many upon ligature or inhumation.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 353 We must conclude, that the origin of a large part of the covering of Herculaneum was long subsequent to the first inhumation of the place.
figurative.1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 442 We curse it [the revival of letters], as the inhumation of European originality in works of genius for ever.1824 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 1 223 The opposition party had only begun to effect a resurrection from that inhumation which it suffered from the aristocratical terrors engendered by the French revolution.
3. An obsolete chemical process: see quots.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > distillation > inhumation
inhumation1617
1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate Termes 344 Inhumation is the setting of two pots (the head of the vppermost being very well couered and luted, but his bottome boared full of little pin-holes, and sure fastened to that which is vnderneath in the ground), and burying them with earth to a certaine depth, hauing a circular fire made for distallatory transudation per descensum.
1650 E. Ashmole tr. A. Dee Fasciculus Chemicus 22 And therefore we distill them..But we doe it sweetly and with inhumation, lest the excessive Fire consume the sought for subtilties.
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