inhume
/ɪnˈhjuːm
/verb [with object] literary
Bury: no hand his bones shall gather or inhume...
- It is known that over 5,000 Sarmatians from this area came to Britain after the Marcomannic wars in AD 175; but it is unlikely that the people at Brougham were Sarmatians, as the latter inhumed their dead.
- Birth and death, however, collide in a remarkable way in a number of tombs in the Greek world in which a woman is found inhumed or cremated together with a fetus or neonate.
- It was the living that inhumed the dead, after all.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin inhumare, from in- 'into' + humus 'ground'.
Rhymes
- justful
- justice
- justiceable
- justice broker
- Justice Clerk
- justice court
- justice day
- Justice General
- Justice Generalship
- justicehood
- justice itinerant
- justiceless
- justicely
- justicement
- Justice of the Peace
- Justice of the Peace-ship
- justicer
- justice seat
- justiceship
- justices' justice
- justiciability
- justiciable
- justicial
- justicialism
- justicialismo