Cremation

3 definitions found

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

  Cremation \Cre*ma"tion\ (kr?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. crematio.]
     A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
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           Without cremation . . . of their bodies. --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cremation
       n : the incineration of a dead body

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

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "cremation":
     blazing, blistering, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization,
     cauterization, cautery, cineration, combustion, concremation,
     cracking, cupellation, deflagration, destructive distillation,
     distillation, distilling, flaming, funeral pile, incineration,
     oxidation, oxidization, parching, pyre, pyrolysis,
     reduction to ashes, refining, scorching, scorification, searing,
     self-immolation, singeing, smelting, suttee, the stake,
     thermogenesis, vesication