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inhumate

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To inhume; to bury.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

Examples

  • c. 1850-1869, Frederic Henry Hedge, "Easter Hymn" Hath the inhumated Upward aspiring, Hath he consummated All his desiring?

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History

Etymology

First attested in 1612; borrowed from Latin inhumātus, perfect passive participle of inhumō (“to put in the earth, plant; (Ecclesiastical Latin) to inhume”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + humō (“to cover with earth”). Doublet of inhume.