inurnv.
/ɪˈnəːn/ transitive. To put (the ashes of a cremated body) in an urn; hence transferred, to entomb, bury, inter. Also figurative.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)]
bedelveOE
begraveOE
burya1000
beburyc1000
bifel-ec1000
layc1000
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
tombc1275
gravec1300
inter1303
rekec1330
to lap in leadc1340
to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340
lie1387
to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400
to lay lowa1425
earthc1450
sepulture1490
to put awaya1500
tyrea1500
mould1530
to graith in the grave1535
ingrave1535
intumulate1535
sepult1544
intumil?c1550
yird1562
shrinea1566
infera1575
entomb1576
sepelite1577
shroud1577
funeral1578
to load with earth1578
delve1587
to lay up1591
sepulchrize1595
pit-hole1607
infuneral1610
mool1610
inhumate1612
inurna1616
inhume1616
pit1621
tumulate1623
sepulchrea1626
turf1628
underlay1639
urna1657
to lay to sleep, asleep1701
envaulta1745
plant1785
ensepulchre1820
sheugh1839
to put under1879
to lay away1885
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > cremate [verb (transitive)] > place ashes in urn
inurna1616
urna1625
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) i. iv. 30 Why the Sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn'd [1603, 1604 interr'd], Hath op'd his ponderous and Marble iawes, To cast thee vp againe?
a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 350 Thither he return'd In his Birth-place to be inurn'd.
1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. vii. 451 Let a Truce be ask'd, that Troy may burn Her slaughter'd Heroes, and their Bones in-urn.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I iv. 5 There's no more to be said of Trafalgar, 'Tis with our hero quietly inurn'd.
1845 H. B. Hirst Coming of Mammoth 117 If thou wilt but inurn, love, The ashes of the past.
1861 Sat. Rev. 7 Sept. 253 The body was sometimes burnt and inurned, but sometimes buried.
Derivatives
iˈnurned adj.
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1766 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances III. 160 Like the inurned Ashes, or embalmed Heart.
iˈnurning n.
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1839 E. B. Browning Sabbath Morning vi I oft had seen the dawnlight..break Through many a mist's inurning.
iˈnurnment n. the process of placing the ashes of a cremated body into an urn.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [noun] > placing ashes in urn
inurnment1934
1934 Amer. Speech 9 317/1 Olivet Memorial Park provides every service for Entombments, Inurnments, Interments.
1948 E. Waugh Loved One 36 Normal disposal is by inhumement, entombment, inurnment or immurement, but many people..prefer insarcophagusment.
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