Burial

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Burial \Bur"i*al\, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS.
     byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli
     sepulcher.]
     1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.]
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              The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and
              biriels weren opened.                 --Wycliff
                                                    [Matt. xxvii.
                                                    51, 52].
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     2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth,
        in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with
        attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a
        public burial." --Shak.
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              Now to glorious burial slowly borne.  --Tennyson.
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     {Burial case}, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to
        close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.
  
     {Burial ground}, a piece of ground selected and set apart for
        a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by
        religious ceremonies.
  
     {Burial place}, any place where burials are made.
  
     {Burial service}.
        (a) The religious service performed at the interment of
            the dead; a funeral service.
        (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an
            interment; as, the English burial service.
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     Syn: Sepulture; interment; inhumation.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  burial
       n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: {entombment},
             {inhumation}, {interment}, {sepulture}]
       2: concealing something under the ground [syn: {burying}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "burial":
     baptism, barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave,
     burial at sea, burial chamber, burial customs, burial mound,
     burying, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave,
     clouding, concealedness, concealment, cortege, covering,
     covering up, covertness, cromlech, crypt, darkening, dead march,
     deception, deep six, deposition, dip, dipping, dirge, dokhma,
     dolmen, dousing, duck, ducking, dunking, encoffinment, engulfment,
     entombment, exequies, funeral, funeral procession,
     funerary customs, grave, hiddenness, hiding, house of death,
     immergence, immersion, inhumation, interment, inundation, inurning,
     invisibility, last home, last post, long home, low green tent,
     low house, masking, mastaba, mausoleum, monstrance, muffled drum,
     mummy chamber, mystification, narrow house, obscuration,
     obscurement, obsequies, occultation, ossuarium, ossuary,
     passage grave, pit, primary burial, putting away, pyramid,
     reburial, reliquary, resting place, screening, secondary burial,
     secrecy, secretion, sepulcher, sepulture, shaft grave, shrine,
     sinking, souse, sousing, stupa, submergence, submersion,
     subterfuge, taps, tomb, tope, tower of silence, tumulus,
     uncommunicativeness, urn burial, vault
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Burial
     The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen.
     23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the
     purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron
     "four hundred shekels of silver current money with the
     merchants." Thus the patriarch became the owner of a part of the
     land of Canaan, the only part he ever possessed. When he himself
     died, "his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of
     Machpelah," beside Sarah his wife (Gen. 25:9).
     
       Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, was buried under Allon-bachuth, "the
     oak of weeping" (Gen. 35:8), near to Bethel. Rachel died, and
     was buried near Ephrath; "and Jacob set a pillar upon her grave"
     (16-20). Isaac was buried at Hebron, where he had died (27, 29).
     Jacob, when charging his sons to bury him in the cave of
     Machpelah, said, "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife;
     there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried
     Leah" (49:31). In compliance with the oath which he made him
     swear unto him (47:29-31), Joseph, assisted by his brethren,
     buried Jacob in the cave of Machpelah (50:2, 13). At the Exodus,
     Moses "took the bones of Joseph with him," and they were buried
     in the "parcel of ground" which Jacob had bought of the sons of
     Hamor (Josh. 24:32), which became Joseph's inheritance (Gen.
     48:22; 1 Chr. 5:1; John 4:5). Two burials are mentioned as
     having taken place in the wilderness. That of Miriam (Num.
     20:1), and that of Moses, "in the land of Moab" (Deut. 34:5, 6,
     8). There is no account of the actual burial of Aaron, which
     probably, however, took place on the summit of Mount Hor (Num.
     20:28, 29).
     
       Joshua was buried "in the border of his inheritance in
     Timnath-serah" (Josh. 24: 30).
     
       In Job we find a reference to burying-places, which were
     probably the Pyramids (3:14, 15). The Hebrew word for "waste
     places" here resembles in sound the Egyptian word for
     "pyramids."
     
       Samuel, like Moses, was honoured with a national burial (1
     Sam. 25:1). Joab (1 Kings 2:34) "was buried in his own house in
     the wilderness."
     
       In connection with the burial of Saul and his three sons we
     meet for the first time with the practice of burning the dead (1
     Sam. 31:11-13). The same practice is again referred to by Amos
     (6:10).
     
       Absalom was buried "in the wood" where he was slain (2 Sam.
     18:17, 18). The raising of the heap of stones over his grave was
     intended to mark abhorrence of the person buried (comp. Josh.
     7:26 and 8:29). There was no fixed royal burying-place for the
     Hebrew kings. We find several royal burials taking place,
     however, "in the city of David" (1 Kings 2:10; 11:43; 15:8; 2
     Kings 14:19, 20; 15:38; 1 Kings 14:31; 22:50; 2 Chr. 21:19, 20;
     2 Chr. 24:25, etc.). Hezekiah was buried in the mount of the
     sepulchres of the sons of David; "and all Judah and the
     inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death" (2 Chr.
     32:33).
     
       Little is said regarding the burial of the kings of Israel.
     Some of them were buried in Samaria, the capital of their
     kingdom (2 Kings 10:35; 13:9; 14:16).
     
       Our Lord was buried in a new tomb, hewn out of the rock, which
     Joseph of Arimathea had prepared for himself (Matt. 27:57-60;
     Mark 15:46; John 19:41, 42).
     
       The grave of Lazarus was "a cave, and a stone lay on it" (John
     11:38). Graves were frequently either natural caverns or
     artificial excavations formed in the sides of rocks (Gen. 23:9;
     Matt. 27:60); and coffins were seldom used, unless when the body
     was brought from a distance.
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BURIAL. The act of interring the dead. 
       2. No burial is lawful unless made in conformity with the local 
  regulations; an when a dead body has been found, it cannot be lawfully 
  buried until the coroner has holden an inquest over it. In England. it is 
  the practice for coroners to issue warrants to bury, after a view. 2 Umf. 
  Lex. Coron. 497, 498.