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Burial — Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Burial case — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Burial ground — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Burial place — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Burial service — Burial Bur i*al, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
burial — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English beriel, berial, back formation from beriels (taken as a plural), from Old English byrgels; akin to Old Saxon burgisli tomb, Old English byrgan to bury more at bury Date: 13th century 1.… … New Collegiate Dictionary
bhergh- — I. bhergh 1 To hide, protect. Oldest form *bherg̑h , becoming *bhergh in centum languages. 1. a. Germanic compound *h(w)als berg (see kʷel 1); b. Germanic compound *skēr berg (see sker 1). Both a and b from Germanic *bergan, to protect … Universalium
burial — /ber ee euhl/, n. 1. the act or ceremony of burying. 2. the place of burying; grave. [1200 50; BURY + AL2; r. ME buriel, back formation from OE byrgels burial place, equiv. to byrg(an) to BURY + els n. suffix; cf. RIDDLE1] * * * Ritual disposal… … Universalium
burial — bur|i|al [ˈberiəl] n [U and C] [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: burial place where a body is buried (13 17 centuries), from Old English byrgels] 1.) the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a ↑grave 2.) the act of burying something in the ground… … Dictionary of contemporary English
bury — [OE] Modern English bury is a descendant of Old English byrgan, which came from the Germanic base *burg (source also of English borough). The underlying meaning of the base was ‘protection, shelter’, and in the case of bury this referred to… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
