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Encasement   Listen
noun
Encasement  n.  
1.
The act of encasing; also, that which encases.
2.
(Biol.) An old theory of generation similar to emboîtement. See Ovulist.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Encasement" Quotes from Famous Books



... after the funeral these presents were all so distributed again as that every one went away with something in return for what he brought. The body was buried without a coffin, except in the case of chiefs, when a log of wood was hollowed out for the purpose. The body being put into this rude encasement, all was done up again in some other folds of native cloth, and carried on the shoulders of four or five men to the grave. The friends followed, but in no particular order; and at the grave again there was often further wailing and exclamations, such as, "Alas! I looked to ...
— Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before • George Turner



Words linked to "Encasement" :   incasement, enclosure, inclosure, envelopment, enclosing, encase



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