#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].


