inurning

Verb

inurn (third-person singular simple present inurns, present participle inurning, simple past and past participle inurned)

1. (transitive) To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.
   • […] the Sepulcher
     Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn’d
     Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes,
     To cast thee vp againec. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

   Synonyms:

   bury, ensepulchre, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest

2. (transitive) To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).
   • Now there are no other remains of its [Hadrian’s mausoleum’s] grandeur than a ball of bronze in the Vatican, which crowned its cupola, and was supposed to inurn the ashes of its Imperial founder.1792, Thomas Watkins, Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople, London: T. Cadell, Volume 1, Letter 18, p. 350