buryingn.
/ˈbɛrɪɪŋ/ 1. † b. concrete. A funeral, a burial. Obsolete or dialect.
a. The action of entombing a dead body or anything similarly treated; burial, interment.
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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
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 382 Henry, hys ȝonge sone, was at hys buryng.
c1300 K. Alis. 8013 N'uste mon never hethen kyng Have so riche a buryeng.
c1420 Sir Amadace xxiv I schalle..Bringe his bodi to Cristun beriinge.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. xxii. 19 He schal be biried with the biriyng of an asse.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xii. 70 Who finds her, giue her burying . View more context for this quotation
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Burying alive, was the punishment of a Vestal who had violated her vow of virginity.
1772 W. Johnson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 144 An axe..imports war: the taking it up, being a declaration of war; and the burying it, a token of peace.
1888 N.E.D. at Burying Mod. The day after the battle was devoted to the burying of the dead.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral
mortuaryc1450
obsequya1500
funeral1513
dole1548
burying1681
black job1785
1681 E. Murphy Present State Ireland §31 He..tarried a while in the..place ere the Burying came.
1750 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 192 There being a great burying in the afternoon.
1787 J. Wolcot Ode upon Ode in Wks. (1812) I. 433 Palls that grace a burying.
2. The action of depositing under ground, covering over with earth or other material; also figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > with or as with soil or earth
buriala1626
burying1626
inhumation1636
soiling1794
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §315 The Burying of Bottles of Drink well stopped.
1888 N.E.D. at Burying Mod. The burying of his talent by the unprofitable servant.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
burying-bell n.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > bell
lich-bell1421
burying-bell1552
1552 in W. Money Parish Church Goods Berks. (1879) 8 A burienge bell, a sakeringe bell.
burying-day n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burial day
burying-day1602
1602 Returne fr. Parnassus (Arb.) iii. v. 47 From our first birth, vntil our burying day.
burying-grave n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]
buriels854
througheOE
burianOE
graveOE
lairc1000
lair-stowc1000
lich-restc1000
pitOE
grass-bedOE
buriness1175
earth housec1200
sepulchrec1200
tombc1300
lakec1320
buriala1325
monumenta1325
burying-place1382
resting placea1387
sepulturea1387
beda1400
earth-beda1400
longhousea1400
laystow1452
lying1480
delfa1500
worms' kitchen?a1500
bier1513
laystall1527
funeral?a1534
lay-bed1541
restall1557
cellarc1560
burying-grave1599
pit-hole1602
urn1607
cell1609
hearse1610
polyandrum1627
requietory1631
burial-place1633
mortuary1654
narrow cell1686
ground-sweat1699
sacred place1728
narrow house1792
plot1852
narrow bed1854
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 10 What is her burying graue, that is her wombe. View more context for this quotation
burying-party n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > burier > burial party
burying-party1887
1887 H. R. Haggard xxxi. Jess in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 321 You are likely to meet a burying party.
a1918 W. Owen Poems (1920) 19 The burying-party, picks and shovels in their shaking grasp.
C2. † burying-light n. Obsolete ? the tapers used at a funeral service.† burying-ticket n. Obsolete ? a funeral card.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > funeral equipment > [noun] > torch or taper
burying-light1522
burial-torch1709
1522 Bk. Founder's Comp. in Notes & Queries iii. IX. 62 Payd to the Wax Chaundler for the beryin lycht at Sen Markytts.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > funeral card
burying-ticket1712
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 431. ⁋3 I then nibbled all the red Wax of our last Ball-Tickets, and three Weeks after the black Wax from the Burying-Tickets of the old Gentleman.
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buryingadj.
Interring; enclosing, whelming.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > with or as with earth
burying1764
whelming1792
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [adjective] > burying
burying1855
1764 W. Falconer Shipwreck (new ed.) iii. 108 The burying waters close around their head.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxv. i, in Maud & Other Poems 89 Never an end to the stream of passing feet, Driving, hurrying, marrying, burying.
Derivatives
burying-beetle n. a clavicorn beetle, which excavates the ground beneath the dead bodies of mice, moles, and other small quadrupeds, so as to bury them as a nidus for its larvæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Staphylinoidea > family Silphidae > member of (burying beetle)
burying-beetle1803
carrion-beetle1815
necrophagan1842
scavenger-beetle1854
'burying-sylph-
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 211 The Burying Beetle.
1818 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. ix. 258 The burying-beetle (Necrophorus Vespillo, F.) inters the bodies of small animals.
1883 J. G. Wood in Good Words Dec. 762/1 Burying Beetles, with their orange and black-banded bodies.
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