(n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(3) The first site we explored was a big burial cairn in the shadow of Carn Menyn, where the Stonehenge bluestones come from."
(4) Getting them to end traditional burials [in which washing the body was a route of transmission of the virus] and accept that treatment was for their benefit was very difficult.
(5) His body was flown to Melbourne for burial the following week.
(6) It offers details for preparing the baby for viewing and holding, describes burial arrangements, and provides information on hospital policies for the disposal of a fetal demise or stillbirth.
(7) The first bluestones, the smaller standing stones, were brought from Wales and placed as grave markers around 3,000BC, and it remained a giant circular graveyard for at least 200 years, with sporadic burials after that, he claims.
(8) How society uses human and monetary resources will be markedly affected by AIDS, considering the high social costs of education, condoms, treatment, death and burial.
(9) The Wellcome Trust announced it was funding the first human trials of a third vaccine , to start imminently, so that it can be tested in health workers and burial teams in west Africa in December, alongside two others.
(10) Inman-Cook says there are a lot of urban myths about home burial and that, strictly speaking, you don’t need permission from anyone.
(11) The method is based on the potential of mean force, with a reaction coordinate expressed by residue burial.
(12) During the period of burial, data were collected daily on the air, soil, and cadaver temperature at each burial site.
(13) (2) Secondary structure formation is driven by local hydrophobic surface burial and precedes the formation of most tertiary interactions.
(14) Force field energies, solvation free energies, exposure of charged residues and burial of hydrophobic residues, and packing of hydrophobic residues at the base of the loop were used as selection criteria.
(15) The burial of these residues in subunit contacts is consistent with their spectroscopic and electrostatic properties.
(16) A spokesman for the Danish Islamic Burial Fund objected to Hussein being buried at a cemetery run by his group.
(17) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
(18) We transcribe here (with modern spelling) the cédula and burial certificates, and we then comment on their significance.
(19) I watched a team of young Sierra Leonean burial volunteers in anti-contamination suits descend in this environment of straw-topped huts, towering forests and mud-lined streams.
(v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Government officials cite this and a number of alleged irregularities in previous investigations as justification for the exhumations, to the outrage of some relatives.
(2) Sixteen family members led by Makaziwe won a court case against Mandla over his 2011 decision to secretly exhume and rebury Mandela's three late children in the village of Mvezo, where Mandla is chief and has built a visitor centre.
(3) In two cases an exhumation was necessary since the bodies had been buried without any further formalities.
(4) To this end, they must be exhumed and given military honours.
(5) The former, in association with the University of Leicester, kicked off last year's stunning exhumation of Richard III's body from a car park in Leicester, and Leicester is where it wants his final resting place to be.
(6) More alarmingly, since 2008, when a local tabloid newspaper published photographs of a clandestine gay wedding in Dakar, police have been cracking down, many homosexuals have gone into hiding or fled abroad (including to Gambia, whose president told them they should leave again within 24 hours or face decapitation), nine gay activists have been jailed after coming out, and the bodies of at least four gay men have been exhumed from their graves and dragged through the streets by jeering mobs.
(7) Before she died, Mobley had told loved ones that she did not want her son to be exhumed; she simply wanted the state of Mississippi to apologise.
(8) Like the fictional narrator of Soldiers of Salamis , Silva went looking for the past, beginning with the location and exhumation of the remains of his own grandfather from a ditch in north-west Spain.
(9) They ruled Grayling had acted reasonably and lawfully in consulting with the "sovereign, state and church", and in granting an exhumation licence which allowed the University of Leicester, which led the archeological dig on the site of the Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, to determine Leicester cathedral as the place of reburial.
(10) Blair’s decisions will be exhumed, his reputation may well be flayed once more.
(11) The exhumation was ordered by the magistrate on request of the parents of one of the victims who suspected that their son had been wrongly identified at the postmortem examination.
(12) The deposed president's body was exhumed in May for its first authoritative autopsy as Chile's independent judiciary began a criminal investigation into the death of Allende and hundreds of other victims of the Pinochet dictatorship.
(13) Dismissing a claim for wide-ranging public consultation, the judges said there was no "legitimate expectation" that Richard III's "collateral descendants would be consulted after centuries in relation to an exhumed historical figure".
(14) Spain to make first exhumations from civil war mausoleum Read more The Fossar is relatively inaccessible from the city.
(15) But in a dozen other cases graves have been opened and bodies exhumed to see if children deemed dead and buried were not in their proper place.
(16) These are Bosnians executed 20 years ago, painstakingly exhumed from one of the largest mass graves ever found in the country.
(17) The post mortem, pathological and toxological examinations of the exhumed corpse permitted the diagnosis of reticulum cell sarcoma 16 months after death.
(18) A historical memory association, which helped with the dig in Guadalajara, has carried out several exhumations in recent years at the request of families.
(19) For others, the push for exhumations is an unwelcome way of reviving old wounds.
(20) The panel was told that Carey had been called to examine the exhumed body of the five-year-old after concerns were raised about the initial recorded cause of death.