inhumation

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But it is Mr. Blair’s account of several millennia of inhumation and exhumation, rather than several centuries of fiction writing, that raises the most significant questions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

The ancients held hasty inhumation in great dread, and grounded their apprehension on various current traditions.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

The difficulties of inhumation are capable of such variety as causes us already to foresee that the Necrophorus cannot employ fixed methods in performing his task.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Lycurgus was perhaps the only Grecian legislator who recommended inhumation in temples and in cities, to accustom youth to the daily spectacle of death.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

The materials of which these articles are formed, are jasper, quartz, granite stained by copper, and clay slate, all showing that peculiar time-worn polish which such substances acquire by long inhumation.

From Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines by Morton, Samuel George