Cerements

Word CEREMENTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Cerements"

What do we mean by cerements?

A burial shroud or garment.

Cerecloth.

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The word "cerements" in example sentences

Thereupon his three sons got ready the funeral gear and whatever was suited to his estate for the mortuary obsequies such as cerements and other matters: they washed the corpse and enshrouded it and prayed over it: then, having committed it to the earth they returned to their palaces where the Wazirs and the ❋ Anonymous (1855)

I have often known him select one of the rawest and most ignorant persons in presence, and to him for the amusement of the rest, he has pretended to cause the absent to appear, the distant to draw near, and the dead themselves to burst the cerements of the grave. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He approached him as if to speak; but the recluse anticipated his purpose, murmuring in stifled tones, from beneath the fold in which his head was muffled, and which sounded like a voice proceeding from the cerements of a corpse, — “Abide, abide — happy thou that mayest — the vision is not yet ended.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although it's dressing the corpse in borrowed cerements, I have to say this is almost a convincing reason to re-read "The Outsider." ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)

Clothes which might as well have been the cerements of a corpse. ❋ Howard Jacobson (2006)

Unfortunately, there are no pockets in the cerements, so I can't bring anything with me to the other side. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Annette, prepared the corpse for interment; and, having wrapt it in cerements, and covered it with a winding-sheet, they watched beside it, till past midnight, when they heard the approaching footsteps of the men, who were to lay it in its earthy bed. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I sealed this letter jealously, as if the inanimate missive would burst its cerements, and proclaim my desperate appeal through all the chambers and passages of silent Bartram. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Let Paul Peter Rubens wake from the dead, let him rise out of his cerements, and bring into this presence all the army of his fat women; the magian power or prophet-virtue gifting that slight rod of Moses, could, at one waft, release and re-mingle a sea spell-parted, whelming the heavy host with the down-rush of overthrown sea-ramparts. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There is a life-like pliability about it as it falls, and the tight cerements so define the outlines that the action makes me shudder. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He thought he was driving in a hansom, when suddenly he found Whyte by his side, clad in white cerements, grinning and gibbering at him with ghastly merriment. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds, and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave. ❋ Unknown (2003)

How they escape from their graves and return to them for certain hours every day, without displacing the clay or leaving any trace of disturbance in the state of the coffin or the cerements, has always been admitted to be utterly inexplicable. ❋ Unknown (2003)

What were they now but cerements shaken from the body of death — the fear he had walked in night and day, the incertitude that had ringed him round, the shame that had abased him within and without — cerements, the linens of the grave? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Where was the soul that had hung back from her destiny, to brood alone upon the shame of her wounds and in her house of squalor and subterfuge to queen it in faded cerements and in wreaths that withered at the touch? ❋ Unknown (2003)

It means that she will one day return from the tomb—a grim and ghastly revenant, shrouded in her blood-dabbled cerements—to complete her dreadful mission of revenge! ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)

The six-legged tiger-creatures looked miserable in their cerements of dust. ❋ Lebaron, Francis (1999)

Unwrapping bed-cerements from himself, he must stumble up and into a defensive posture. ❋ Wills, Garry (1975)

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