ETYM Old Eng. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, from byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.
The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave; SYN. entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture.
1. A share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given.
2. (Great Britain) Money received from the state; SYN. pogy, pogey.
Funeral ceremony.
ETYM Late Lat. funeralia, prop. neut. pl. of funeralis of a funeral, from Latin funus, funeris, funeral: cf. French funérailles.
A ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated.
ETYM Cf. French inhumation.
Burial; act of depositing in the ground.
1. The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
The act or ceremony of interring
Interment; burial; sepulchre