Cerement
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cerement is a noun meaning (often plural) A burial shroud or garment.
Meaning
(often plural) A burial shroud or garment.
More Meanings
- (specifically) Cerecloth.
Example Sentences
"Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.
The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple.
[…]; but tell / Why thy Canoniz’d bones Hearſed in death, / Haue burſt their cerments, why the Sepulcher / Wherein we ſaw thee quietly enurn’d, / Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, / To caſt thee vp againe?
Oh! when his sacred dust The cerements of the tomb shall burst, Might I be worthy at his feet to rise, To yonder blissful skies, Where angel-hosts resplendent shine, Jehovah!—Lord of Hosts, the glory shall be thine.
Word Forms
- cerements
Synonyms for cerement
Depending on context, synonyms include winding sheet, pall, shroud.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shroud, pall, winding-sheet, sudary, graveclothes, crape.
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