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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Burial \Bur"i*al\, n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS.
   byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli
   sepulcher.]
   1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [Obs.]

            The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and
            biriels weren opened.                 --Wycliff
                                                  [Matt. xxvii.
                                                  51, 52].

   2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth,
      in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with
      attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. ``To give a
      public burial.'' --Shak.

            Now to glorious burial slowly borne.  --Tennyson.

   {Burial case}, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to
      close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body.

   {Burial ground}, a piece of ground selected and set apart for
      a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by
      religious ceremonies.

   {Burial place}, any place where burials are made.

   {Burial service}.
      (a) The religious service performed at the interment of
          the dead; a funeral service.
      (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an
          interment; as, the English burial service.

   Syn: Sepulture; interment; inhumation.

資料來源 : WordNet®

burial
     n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: {entombment},
           {inhumation}, {interment}, {sepulture}]
     2: concealing something under the ground [syn: {burying}]