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immurement
immurement (ɪˈmjʊəmənt) [f. immure v. + -ment.] The action of immuring or condition of being immured; imprisonment, confinement.1736 Bailey (folio) Pref., Immurement, an inclosing between two Walls, a Punishment used in Popish Countries. 1753 Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 178/1 By the interposition of ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Immurement
Some ambiguous evidence exists of immurement as a practice of coffin-type confinement in Mongolia. As a motif in legends and folklore, many tales of immurement exist. wikipedia.org
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immuration
immuration (ɪmjʊəˈreɪʃən) [f. immure v. + -ation.] = immurement.1895 Pollock & Maitland Hist. Eng. Law I. ii. ii. 427 Stephen Langton seems to have condemned two of the laity to that close imprisonment which was known as immuration. 1959 J. L. M. Trim in Quirk & Smith Teaching of Eng. iii. 77 [Speec... Oxford English Dictionary
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Immured anchorite
See also Anchorite Sokushinbutsu Stylite Immurement References External links Novel The Wheel of Darkness at PrestonChild.com Christian Anchorites wikipedia.org
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inurn
inurn, v. (ɪˈnɜːn) Also 7 en-. [in-2.] trans. To put (the ashes of a cremated body) in an urn; hence transf., to entomb, bury, inter. Also fig. Hence iˈnurned ppl. a., iˈnurning vbl. n.; iˈnurnment, the process of placing the ashes of a cremated body into an urn.1602 Shakes. Ham. i. iv. 49 Why the S... Oxford English Dictionary
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The Sealed Room
Plot The film's theme of immurement draws inspiration from Balzac's "La Grande Bretêche", and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado". wikipedia.org
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Dungeon
Victims in oubliettes were often left to starve and dehydrate to death, making the practice akin to—and some say an actual variety of—immurement. See also Immurement Keep References Further reading Castle architecture Rooms Imprisonment and detention wikipedia.org
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Postumia (vestal)
Postumia's acquittal was a good outcome, for if she had been found guilty, Postumia would have been executed by being buried alive or immurement in the wikipedia.org
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Crypt
Placing a corpse into a crypt can be called immurement, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to, for example, cremation. wikipedia.org
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Tomb
Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called immurement, although this word mainly means entombing people alive, and is a method of final disposition, as wikipedia.org
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Cruel and unusual punishment
drawn and quartered, mazzatello, boiling to death, death by burning, execution by drowning, feeding alive to predatory animals, death by starvation, immurement wikipedia.org
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Yusuf Yaska
Little is known about his personal life, yet Minorsky wrote that Yaska was executed by immurement after his master Khan Ahmad Khan Ardalan of Ardalan suspected wikipedia.org
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Sacrament (Millennium)
The treatment of the two victims seen in "Sacrament"—the immurement of Helen Black and the burial in the garden of the unidentified second victim—appear wikipedia.org
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Disposal of human corpses
Immurement Immurement of corpses is the permanent storage in an above-ground tomb or mausoleum. wikipedia.org
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Anjanette Comer
Loved One, playing a seductive mortician who offers Robert Morse a choice for his uncle's funeral arrangements of "Inhumement, entombment, inurnment, immurement wikipedia.org
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