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noun

Inhumation n.

The act of inhuming or burying; interment.

(Old Chem.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.

(Med.) Arenation.

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Etymology of 'Inhumation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... if we may so call it. The skeletons lay upon a bed of powdered iron ore, in some cases as much as two fifths of an inch thick, and this accumulation could not have taken place if the skeleton had not been deprived of its flesh before inhumation. The flesh must have been taken off by some rapid process, for the bones remain, as a general rule, in their natural positions, united by their tendons and ligaments. In Italy, says Issel, the cave men buried their dead in the caves they lived in, a thin layer of earth alone separating ...

— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac

... inhumation is generally chosen on the advice of magicians who are supposed to know the sites which are likely to be most favourable to the deceased. Sometimes the body is exhumed at great expense, still on the advice of the same magicians, who, being in direct communication with ...

— Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor