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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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.

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..

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

Crypt :: Crypt (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory..

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

Sepelition :: Sepelition (n.) Burial.

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

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..

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

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