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Definition of Ossuaries
1. ossuary [n] - See also: ossuary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ossuaries
Literary usage of Ossuaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1920)
"ossuaries Many ossuaries have been encountered in the western counties of the
... The ossuaries appear to have been rectangular in form, to have occupied ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"... ossuaries are found where, after successive exhumations and re-interments,
the remains are deposited. At Car Nicobar mortuary huts are kept exclusively ..."
3. The Natural History of the Human Species: Its Typical Forms, Primeval by Charles Hamilton Smith (1859)
"Here it is that an unknown people actually did bury, or, at least, made ossuaries
of the dead, at a period so remote as in all probability to be anterior to ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"... bordered by ossuaries and ' stations,' till he stood in front of the great '
Calvary,' to which all the paths converge—in a broad open space paved with ..."
5. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1895)
"ossuaries. The presence of a bone-pit, or communal grave, has hitherto been
regarded as sufficient proof that the district was within the territory occupied ..."
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