Cerement

Word CEREMENT
Character 8
Hyphenation cere ment
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cerement"

What do we mean by cerement?

Cerecloth. noun

A burial garment. noun

Cloth dipped in melted wax and used in wrapping dead bodies when they are embalmed; hence, any grave-cloth; in the plural, grave-clothes in general. noun

The under-cover of an altar-slab. noun

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed. noun

Any shroud or wrapping for the dead. noun

A burial shroud or garment. noun

Cerecloth. noun

Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped noun

A burial shroud or garment.

Cerecloth.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Cerement

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The word "cerement" in example sentences

"cerement," the cloth dipped "in melting wax, in which dead bodies were enfolded when embalmed" (_Hamlet_, act i.sc. 4), but the sense of the passage seems rather to point to "cerecloth," "searcloth," a plaster to cover up a wound. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

A gauzy veil of white covered her head, like a cerement of the grave. ❋ Kelly Creagh (2010)

And I'll give you ten to one I was there as well, bound in the cerement of faint rain's chill vigil. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Fallen, she was now the ghost, dressed in cerement cloth, as vacant as the Mary Celeste. ❋ Mordicai (2004)

This was at once both good and bad for the little Emperor, good because it made the bursting of his cerement easy, bad because it made the drying of his wings slow. ❋ Douglas English (N/A)

Spiritual bodies are subject to a process of refinement and decay; and the soul, as the winged butterfly to which it is likened, throws off its cerement and assumes a new form. ❋ Henry J. Horn (N/A)

And then again I saw it lying very quietly in the clutch of a bitter winter -- an awful hush upon it, and the white cerement of the snow flung across its face. ❋ John G. Neihardt (1927)

"The time is not far distant," he said in a letter to John Adams, "at which we are to repose in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall love and never lose again." ❋ Unknown (1922)

The moonlight gleamed on the high-pitched red roof, and drenched the garden in whiteness, but the mist which rose from the waters of the moat swathed the walls of the house like a cerement. ❋ Unknown (1907)

In due time, to this came his answer, tragic in its brevity, terrible in its attempt to say nothing -- so that its stiff cerement of formality seemed to crack with every written word and its platitudes split open under the fierce straining of the living and unwritten words beneath them. ❋ Frank Craig (1899)

Also, I don't call marriage, for instance, an old cerement. ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

And then, with a shock which the present writer, at all events, will not soon forget, we suddenly discover that these scattered bones are human – that those linen shreds are shreds of cerement cloths – that yonder odd-looking brown lumps are rent fragments of what once was living flesh! ❋ Unknown (1891)

The mountain-slopes of Siût are strewn with cerement wrappings, and the débris of mummies broken up for the sake of their funerary amulets by the predatory Arabs; and there is not an ancient burial-ground, or mound, or ruined temple in Egypt where the traveller who has patience enough to grub under the soil beneath his feet may not find relics of the dead and gone past. ❋ Unknown (1891)

Wrapper by wrapper he undid, cerement on cerement, till both Leonora and I wondered when he would stop. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Was it my brain that reeled — or was it indeed the finger of the enshrouded dead that stirred in the white cerement that bound it? ❋ Unknown (1840)

Then the corpse, covered by a long cerement, was tenderly lifted up by six of the nearest kinfolk and borne towards the dark thing I have described. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

a cerement of apple sauce in the paunches of apoplectic aldermen, eating against each other at a civic feast! ❋ John Wilson (1819)

Please RT:) cerement While I enjoy the "Trance Around the World" podcast, US ❋ Derek Gatopoulos (2010)

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