Burial Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Burial Information and Meaning
See also CORPSES; DEATH
- cerement, cerements
- the cloth or clothing in which the dead are wrapped for burial or other form of funeral.
- columbarium
- a vault where the remains of cremated bodies are kept, usually in one of a number of recesses in a wall.
- exequy
- 1. a funeral procession or cortege.
- 2. funeral rites or ceremony.
- hydriotaphia
- a burial in an urn.
- necropolis
- a cemetery, especially one attached to an ancient city.
- obsequies
- a funeral or funeral ceremony. Sometimes obsequy.
- sepelition
- Obsolete, burial or interment.
- sindology
- the study of funeral shrouds.
- taphephobia, taphiphobia, taphophobia
- an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
- taphophilia
- a love for funerals.