entombment

entombment
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  • Entombment — En*tomb ment, n. The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Entombment —    The entombment refers to the biblical account of Christ s burial. Pontius Pilate granted permission to Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus to retrieve the body from the cross. In keeping with Jewish funerary customs, Mary Magdalen anointed… …   Dictionary of Renaissance art

  • entombment — noun a) The act of entombment or the state of being entombed b) The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete …   Wiktionary

  • entombment — entomb ► VERB 1) place in a tomb. 2) bury in or under something. DERIVATIVES entombment noun …   English terms dictionary

  • entombment — noun see entomb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • entombment — See entomb. * * * …   Universalium

  • entombment — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. burial, interment, inurnment, sepulture; see funeral 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An act of placing a body in a grave or tomb: burial, inhumation, interment. See SHOW …   English dictionary for students

  • entombment — en tomb·ment || mÉ™nt n. intombment, burial, interment, act of placing in a grave or tomb …   English contemporary dictionary

  • entombment — n. Burial, interment, inhumation, sepulture …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • entombment — n sepulture, burial, burying, interment, inhumation, inurnment …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

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