| 单词 | kirk-burial |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskirk-burial kirk-burial n. burial within a church building. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > types of burial or entombment > [noun] > burial in specific place kirk-burial1606 out-funeral1637 tree-burial1901 1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xix. 33 When their bemasked kirk-buriall shall be be-reft of her fig-tree buskings. 1648 in J. Stuart Extracts Presbytery Bk. Strathbogie (1843) 87 Concerning restraint of kirk buriallis. 1862 W. Hunter Biggar & House of Fleming 190 The practice of kirk burial was in popish times quite common throughout the whole country, and, therefore, the Presbyterian clergy, at the Reformation, set themselves with vigour to repress it. 1905 W. M. Metcalfe Hist. County of Renfrew xviii. 259 They..prohibited piping and dancing, forbade penny-weddings, and began a campaign against kirk-burial. 2000 A. Spicer in B. Gordon & P. Marshall Place of Dead 150 The First Book of Discipline considered kirk-burial to be unseemly in a building which was assigned for preaching and the administration of the sacraments. < as lemmas |
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