单词 | rebury |
释义 | reburyv. transitive. To bury again. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)] > rebury rebury1584 re-entomb?1594 retomb1605 reinter1611 1584 Copie of Let. conc. Erle of Leycester 43 My good Lord..would needes haue her taken vp againe and reburied. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 649/2 Her Coffin..hath euer since so remained, and neuer reburied. 1679 J. Moxon in Earl of Castlemaine Eng. Globe To Rdr. sig. A2 New and profitable Inventions in Arts are like hidden Treasures found, which ought not to be reburied. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo iii, in Wks. (1721) III. 86 Some [shall] wish themselves re-buried in the Grave. 1792 F. Reynolds Notoriety iii. 27 I shall be pull'd up and reburied at the expence of my country. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. vii. 199 Re-buried hastily at dead of night. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. i. 14 No one..could suppose that some third person had..forced open the casket to abstract its contents and then rebury it. 1908 E. R. Barker Buried Herculaneum vii. 59 La Vega's fine plan was compiled from the notes and drawings of past excavators, not from a personal knowledge of all the buildings, which had long been reburied. 1963 R. P. Dales Annelids ii. 47 It lives almost at the surface, can rebury itself quickly. 2007 Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa.) (Nexis) 26 Nov. Oden Bowie had appropriated $5,000 after the war to find and rebury the thousands of Confederate soldiers buried in shallow graves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1584 |
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