† terment Obs.
Forms: 4–6 terement, 5 tyrrement, 5–6 tyr(e)ment, terment, 6 terrement.
[Aphetic form of interment.]
Burial, funeral: = interment; also, a funeral service.
| 1389 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 92 Þe skeueyns shullen don seyn þo messes wyhtinne vj. day after þe terement. 1402 E.E. Wills (1882) 11 Atte day of my terment. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 494/2 Tyrrement, or intyrrement, funerale. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 578 King Henry caused a solempne obite and terrement to be kept within Paules Church of London, for Sigismond the Emperor. |