inhume
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It may be absurd to wait too long; it is indecorous to inhume too soon.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
The Mandans, of the Upper Missouri, never inhume or bury their dead, but place their bodies, according to Mr. Catlin, on light scaffolds, out of the reach of the wolves and foxes.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
The urgent necessity there is to inhume at once these dead bodies, the most active agents in diffusing the contagion, is equally the drift of this observation.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
The good Secretary was instructed to spill it along in a furrow and afterward inhume it with soil.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
The Chinese inhume their dead at some distance from their cities and towns; it is only the bodies of the rich and noble that are allowed to remain on the premises of the family.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Some Tasmanian tribes burned the dead and carried the ashes about in amulets; others buried in hollow trees; others simply inhumed.
From Homer and His Age by Andrew Lang
Though the prisons were thrown open, the Beaumont family still lingered near the abode wherein they had been so long inhumed.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
Shortly before sundown Cuthbert and Cookie were despatched by Dugald Shaw to the cliff above the cave with supplies for the inhumed pirates.
From Spanish Doubloons by Camilla Kenyon
Where earthquakes prevail, and the levels of a country are changed from time to time, the remains of animals may more easily be inhumed and protected from disintegration.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The steward of Count Simon Labienski, starost of Posnania, being dead, the Countess Dowager de Labienski wished, from gratitude for his services, to have him inhumed in the vault of the lords of that family.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
