- transitiveTo 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 againe”
“[…] it is necessary that he should pass through a period of temporary death, for which state he prepares in the following manner, building to himself a secure and convenient tomb, wherein he lies dece”
“Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war,
And still should be so, but the tide is turn’d;
There’s no more to be said of Trafalgar,
’Tis with our hero quietly inurn’d;”
- transitiveTo 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.”
“1826, Caleb Cushing, Eulogy given on 15 July, 1826, in A Selection of Eulogies, Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of […] John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Hartford: D.F. Robinson, p. 21,
Over ”
“[…] as the plough turns
Some warlike relic from the sod,
Whose mould the battle-ranks inurns,”
Formsinurns(present, singular, third-person) · inurning(participle, present) · inurned(participle, past) · inurned(past) · enurn(alternative)