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Burying Place :: Burying place () The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

Sepelition :: Sepelition (n.) Burial.

Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Catafalque :: Catafalque (n.) A temporary structure sometimes used in the funeral solemnities of eminent persons, for the public exhibition of the remains, or their conveyance to the place of burial..

Catacomb :: Catacomb (n.) A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural..

Casket :: Casket (n.) A kind of burial case.

Officiant :: Officiant (n.) The officer who officiates or performs an office, as the burial office..

Cemetery :: Cemetery (n.) A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

Funereal :: Funereal (a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

Service :: Service (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service..

Entombment :: Entombment (n.) The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial..

Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

Adipocere :: Adipocere (n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration..

Trental :: Trental (n.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.

Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural..

Obsequy :: Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural..

Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A burial place; a place for the dead.

Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

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