2. Adjective. Of cremated ashes: placed in an urn; buried, entombed. ¹
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Definition of Inurned
1. inurn [v] - See also: inurn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inurned
Literary usage of Inurned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"... are now inurned the tongue which spoke in music, the eye which now flashed
fire, now beamed with sweetness, the brow on which expression sat enthroned, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of by Francis Hardy (1812)
"the return of this fatal bill was their political existence completely inurned.
Lord Charlemont took advantage of their silent mood, and quietly withdrew ..."
3. Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, earl of Charlemont by Francis Hardy (1812)
"the return of this fatal bill was their political existence completely inurned.
Lord Charlemont took ad vantage of their silent mood, and quietly withdrew ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1890)
"Fully one-third of the above- mentioned 600 interments were after cremation, and
of these, not less than seventy were inurned, the majority being ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"... with a note by the editor, in which he is stated to have been “ inurned
according to his own desire in a conical building near his late widow's house. ..."
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