Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

     #362.  Corpse. —­ N. corpse, corse[obs3], carcass, cadaver, bones,
skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae[Lat], remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil.
     shade, ghost, manes.
     organic remains, fossils. 
     Adj. cadaverous, corpse-like; unburied &c. 363;
sapromyiophyllous[obs3].

     #363.  Interment. —­ N. interment, burial, sepulture[obs3];
inhumation|; obsequies, exequies[obs3]; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation.
     funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell,
tolling; dirge &c. (lamentation) 839; cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph.
     graveclothes[obs3], shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement.
     coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque,
cinerary urn[obs3].
     grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum,
Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God’s acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate[obs3]; burning ghat[obs3]; crematorium, crematory; dokhma[obs3], mastaba[obs3], potter’s field, stupa[obs3], Tower of Silence.
     sexton, gravedigger.
     monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone;
memento mori[Lat]; hatchment[obs3], stone; obelisk, pyramid.
     exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem
examination[Lat]; zoothapsis[obs3]. 
     V. inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the
tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn[obs3].
     exhume, disinter, unearth. 
     Adj. burried &c. v.; burial, funereal, funebrial[obs3]; mortuary,
sepulchral, cinerary[obs3]; elegiac; necroscopic[obs3]. 
     Adv. in memoriam; post obit, post mortem[Lat]; beneath the sod. 
     Phr. hic jacet[Lat][obs3], ci-git[Fr]; RIP; requiescat in pace[Lat];
“the lone couch of his everlasting sleep” [Shelley]; “without a grave-unknell’d, uncoffin’d, and unknown” [Byron]; “in the dark union of insensate dust” [Byron]; “the deep cold shadow of the tomb” [Moore].

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     #364.  Animality. —­ N. animal life; animation, animality[obs3],
animalization[obs3]; animalness, corporeal nature, human system; breath.
     flesh, flesh and blood; physique; strength &c. 159. 
     Adj. fleshly, human, corporeal.

     #365.  Vegetability|. —­ N. vegetable life; vegetation, vegetability|;
vegetality[obs3]. 
     V. vegetate, grow roots, put down roots. 
     Adj. rank, lush; vegetable, vegetal, vegetive[obs3].

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