inhumations

Noun

inhumation (countable and uncountable, plural inhumations)

1. The act of burial.
   • "Cremation versus Inhumation" was the subject considered at the meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club at the residence of Mr. Courtlandt Palmer, No. 117 East One Hundred and Seventeenth-street, last evening.1885 March 18, “Cremation or Burial”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 Sep 2010
2. The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
3. Arenation.