Definition of Cemetiry
Cem"e*ter*y (?), n.; pl.
Cemeteries (&?;). [L. cemeterium, Gr.
&?; a sleeping chamber, burial place, fr. &?; to put to sleep.]
A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a
graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies,
poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The
inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained
in these Olympian games:
His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to
overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives
they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here
commemorated by his family, who shared them.
In the earth we here prepare a
Place to lay our little Clara.
Thomas M. and Mary Frazer
P.S. -- Gabriel will raise her.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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