funeral rite
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The majority of tombs presented one single drinking vessel as a grave good, in what would have been a specific funeral rite of this archaeological site.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
An Orthodox priest blessed the site as two people sang the funeral rite.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022
It will be celebrated by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, while Pope Francis will perform a traditional funeral rite at the end of the ceremony.
From Seattle Times • May 28, 2022
The symphony pivots on an Adagio of almost shocking tragic power—a funeral rite for the destroyed world of the composer’s youth.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2019
A Bráhman's form, the fiend to cloak, Fierce Ilval wore, and Sanskrit spoke, And twice-born sages would invite To solemnize some funeral rite.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
