'Burial service' definitions:

Definition of 'Burial service'

From: GCIDE
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. --Wycliff [Matt. xxvii.
  • 51, 52]. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Now to glorious burial slowly borne. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Sepulture; interment; inhumation. [1913 Webster]