Interment meaning

In 1667, the oration at the interment was forbidden by royal order.

354, shows that interment in them was even then rare if it had not been altogether discontinued; and the poet Prudentius's description of the tomb of the Christian martyr Hippolytus, and the cemetery in which it stood, leads us to the same conclusion.

The mode of interment, however, is the same as that practised in Rome, and the loculi and arcosolia differ by little in the two.

The result was a difficulty as to burial, which was compromised by hurried interment at the abbey of Scellieres in Champagne, anticipating the interdict of the bishop of the diocese by an hour or two.