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Definition of Exhumate
1. exhume [v EXHUMATED, EXHUMATING, EXHUMATES] - See also: exhume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhumate
Literary usage of Exhumate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Coltness Collections, M.DC.VIII.-M.DCCC.XL. by James Dennistoun, Archibald Steuart Denham, Margaret Steuart Calderwood (1842)
"And it may be said, Sir James was not exhumate till 1713, that his son, Sir James
Stewart, Lord Advocate, was laid in that grave : I stood with Mr Walter ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1828)
"... who had been dead 35 years, embalmed and admirably preserved. It is supposed
that he had prevailed on the grate- digger to exhumate the body. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1827)
"It is supposed that be had prevailed on the gravedigger to exhumate the body,
from which, after death, he was unwilling to separate himself. ..."
4. The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1878)
"... 'tho ( ow, to collect the bones, and employs several persons to go from town
to town to exhumate them, and take them to a par- ti^nkr sjM>t, ..."
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