Cinerary

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes.
  • adjective. vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of, pertaining to, or containing ashes, especially those of a cremated person.
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  • adjective. containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead
  • Word Usage
    "The so-called cinerary urns are large vessels which have been usually discovered containing human bones; they have often been found inverted over cremated remains."
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