interment

Roget-categorie 363

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.1. Vitality

#363. Interment

zelfstandig naamwoord

interment, burial, sepulture^† — inhumation^† — obsequies, exequies^† — funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile — cremation.
funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity — kneel, passing bell, tolling — dirge etc. (lamentation) 839 — cypress — orbit, dead march, muffled drum — mortuary, undertaker, mute — elegy — funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon — epitaph.
graveclothes^†, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth — cerement.
coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn^†.
grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house — cemetery, necropolis — burial place, burial ground — grave yard, church yard — God's acre — tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn — ossuary — bone house, charnel house, dead house — morgue — lich gate^† — burning ghat^† — crematorium, crematory — dokhma^†, mastaba^†, potter's field, stupa^†, Tower of Silence.
sexton, gravedigger.
monument, cenotaph, shrine — grave stone, head stone, tomb stone — memento mori [Lat.] — hatchment^†, stone — obelisk, pyramid.
exhumation, disinterment — necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination [Lat.] — zoothapsis^†.
werkwoord
inter, bury — lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb — inhume — lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify — toll the knell — put to bed with a shovel — inurn^†.
exhume, disinter, unearth.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
burried etc. v. — burial, funereal, funebrial^† — mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary^† — elegiac — necroscopic^†.
bijwoord
in memoriam — post obit, post mortem [Lat.] — beneath the sod.
uitdrukking
hic jacet [Lat.], ci-git [Fr.] — RIP — requiescat in pace [Lat.] — the lone couch of his everlasting sleep" [Shelley]; without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and without a grave-unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown" [Byron]; in the dark union of insensate dust" [Byron]; the deep cold shadow of the tomb" [Moore]. 2. Special Vitality

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