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Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.

Interment :: Interment (v. t.) The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.

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..

Carnary :: Carnary (n.) A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house..

Necropolis :: Necropolis (n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard..

Grave :: Grave (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction..

Burial :: Burial (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..

Sepelible :: Sepelible (a.) Admitting of burial.

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

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..

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

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

Sepulchral :: Sepulchral (a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription..

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..

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.

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

Sepulture :: Sepulture (n.) A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.

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

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

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