The act of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.
To mention among other things; to include. [Not used.]
To mention among other things, or casually or incidentally.
Insertion Roget’s Thesaurus §300
N. insertion, implantation, # introduction, insinuation, planting, &c. v, injection, inoculation, importation, infusion, forcible ingress, immersion, submersion, submergence, dip, plunge, bath &c. (water), 337, interment, clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement
V. insert, introduce, intromit, put into, run into, import, inject, interject, infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue, graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant, dovetail, obtrude, thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in, impact, empierce|, imbed, immerse, immerge, merge, bathe, soak, dip, plunge, bury, insert &c itself, plunge in medias res
Adj. inserted
Interment Roget’s Thesaurus §363
N. interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation|, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, 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, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis
V. 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
Adv. in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod
Phr. hic jacet, ci-git, rip, requiescat in pace, "the lone couch of his everlasting sleep", "without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown", "in the dark union of insensate dust", "the deep cold shadow of the tomb", 2. special vitality
No Bible verses found for "Interment".
