- entombment
- noun see entomb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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 — index bondage, captivity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
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 — 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
