Inurn

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.
2. (transitive) To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).

Example Sentences

[…] the Sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn’d Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, To cast thee vp againe

[…] it is necessary that he should pass through a period of temporary death, for which state he prepares in the following manner, building to himself a secure and convenient tomb, wherein he lies decently inurned till the appointed moment when he is to arise from his inactive state, and become the inhabitant of another element.

Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war, And still should be so, but the tide is turn’d; There’s no more to be said of Trafalgar, ’Tis with our hero quietly inurn’d;

Each one [crematory] is different, and there is a wide range in the quality of the work they do and the pains they take in combusting and inurning human remains.

1826, Caleb Cushing, Eulogy given on 15 July, 1826, in A Selection of Eulogies, Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of […] John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Hartford: D.F. Robinson, p. 21, Over the insensible marble, which inurns their ashes, a nation bows prostrate in the lowly attitude of mourning,

Now there are no other remains of its [Hadrian’s mausoleum’s] grandeur than a ball of bronze in the Vatican, which crowned its cupola, and was supposed to inurn the ashes of its Imperial founder.

[…] as the plough turns Some warlike relic from the sod, Whose mould the battle-ranks inurns,

Though you exist still, a mere form inurning The ashes of dead fires of thought and yearning,

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• inurns
• inurning
• inurned
• enurn

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