burying-placen.
A place of burial, a tomb; now usually = burying-ground n.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun]
littenc900
charnel1377
burying-place1382
fosse?a1425
churchyard1477
golgotha1604
God's acre1605
cemetery1613
burial-place1633
dormitory1634
burying-ground1711
burial-field1743
graveyard1767
burial-ground1803
burial-yard1842
boneyard1866
Boot Hill1901
necropole1921
memorial park1927
grave-site1953
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
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxiii. 4 Gif ȝe to me ryȝt of a biryyng place with ȝow.
c1450 Merlin iii. 57 Uter..lete write vpon eche beryinge place his name that lay vnder.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 330 Burying places were called Cæmeteria, Sleping places.
1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlix. 30 The caue..which Abraham bought..for a possession of a burying place . View more context for this quotation
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 132 Every Person may have a Burying-place in his own Estate.
1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 65 The burying-place around it has been used within memory.
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