cemeterial

[ sem-i-teer-ee-uhl, -tair- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a cemetery or to burial.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cemeterial¹

First recorded in 1600–10; cemetery + -ial

Example Sentences

The attention of this gentleman was arrested by this smallness of cemeterial dimensions, or place of burial.

From Project Gutenberg

Though we decline the religious considera- tion, yet in cemeterial and narrower burying-places, to avoid confusion and cross-position, a certain posture were to be admitted: which even Pagan civility observed.

From Project Gutenberg

The entrance to the dead city is gardened about with a cemeterial prettiness of evergreens; but, after you have bought your ticket and been assigned your guide, you pass through this decorative zone and find yourself in the first of streets where the past makes no such terms with the present.

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