cineration

While this cineration is going on vultures and carrion fowl not infrequently pounce down upon the body, and tear away pieces of flesh from the ghastly, smoking corpse.

Antonyms: incombustible, asbestic. burning, n. combustion, cineration, incineration; cauterization, cautery; pyrography; arson; incendiarism; smoldering. burning, n. cremation, incremation.

These shall burn first: their ignible   And seasoned substances—trunks, legs and arms,   Blent indistinguishable in a mass,   Like winter-woven serpents in a pit—   None vantaged of his fellow-fools in point   Of precedence, and all alive—shall serve   As fueling to fervor the retort   For after cineration of true men.