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Inhumation vs Obsequies - What's the difference?

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Inhumation is a related term of obsequies.


As a noun inhumation

is the act of burial.

As a verb obsequies is

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inhumation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of burial.
  • * 1885 , " Cremation or Burial," New York Times , 18 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
    • "Cremation versus Inhumation " was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.
  • * 2010 , Eti Bonn-Muller, " Dynasty of Priestesses," archaeology.org , 10 March (retrieved 10 Sep 2010):
    • Stampolidis's team has unearthed three types of Iron Age burials at Orthi Petra . . . dating from the ninth to the seventh century B.C.: pithos (large ceramic jar) burials, cremations, and basic inhumations .
  • The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
  • (medicine) arenation

    • Synonyms

    * burial, entombment, interment

    Antonyms

    * disinterment, exhumation

    obsequies

    English

    Noun

  • (label) funeral rites
  • see obsequy

    • Usage notes

    * the plural only usage is favored by the Oxford Dictionary obsequies ('obsequy' not listed)]. Oxford Dictionaries Online, Oxford University Press, and thus can be considered to be British, whereas Webster's dictionary, with prevalence of the usage in the plural being noted, gives both singular and plural forms of the word[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/obsequy obsequy. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. * in modern usage, not to be confused with obsequious

    References

    * The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus. American Edition. Oxford University Press, 1997 * Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language . Random House, 1996. ----