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

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

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..

Sepelition :: Sepelition (n.) Burial.

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

Exhume :: Exhume (v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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