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Definition of Entombment
1. Noun. The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave.
Generic synonyms: Funeral
Derivative terms: Bury, Entomb, Inhume, Inter
Definition of Entombment
1. n. The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial.
Definition of Entombment
1. Noun. The act of entombing or the state of being entombed ¹
2. Noun. The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entombment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entombment
Literary usage of Entombment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"are naively given in the same picture, the Resurrection is seen above and the
entombment below. Thus Art combined the two great facts and dogmas of our ..."
2. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"are naively given in the same picture, the Resurrection is seen above and the
entombment below. Thus Art combined the two great facts and dogmas of our ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Three round monochromes, Faith, Hope, and Charity, once the predella of the
entombment, are iti the Vatican. The lunette representing God the Father ..."
4. Robert Merry's Museum by Samuel G Goodrich (1842)
"The Re-entombment of Napoleon, OF all the great and remarkable men of modern
times, Napoleon Bonaparte was the most wonderful. ..."
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