Inhumation vs Rites - What's the difference?
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The act of burial.
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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
Inhumation is a related term of rites.
As a noun inhumation
is the act of burial.As a verb rites is
.inhumation
English
Noun
(en noun)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.
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 .
