What's the difference between charnel and ossuary?
Charnel
Definition:
(a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.
(n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
Example Sentences:
(1) He opposed Barack Obama’s 2011 campaign to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, which has left Libya the kind of charnel house it was intended to prevent.
(2) From the skeletal remains of about 5800 individuals from the charnel house of Eggenburg there were 2200 individuals of late medieval date.
(3) The bombs instantly turned Boylston Street into a charnel house.
(4) The journalist and historian Carey McWilliams wrote almost 70 years ago the missions could be better conceived as “a series of picturesque charnel houses ”.
Ossuary
Definition:
(n.) A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house.
Example Sentences:
(1) This 1.5km-long ossuary (still one of the French capital’s most profitable tourist attractions) is dwarfed by the city’s 300km of underground tunnels that are closed to the public.
(2) A fused pelvis and two specimens of fused vertebrae were found in an ossuary at Ein Gedi, Israel; they date from approximately 2000 years ago.
(3) He has spent three years touring ancient ossuaries, documenting seldom-seen artworks crafted from human bones .