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cerement

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Definition of cerement

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noun

  1. (often, plural)A burial shroud or garment.
    “[…]; but tell / Why thy Canoniz’d bones Hearſed in death, / Haue burſt their cerments, why the Sepulcher / Wherein we ſaw thee quietly enurn’d, / Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, / To caſt thee vp againe?”
    “Oh! when his sacred dust The cerements of the tomb shall burst, Might I be worthy at his feet to rise, To yonder blissful skies, Where angel-hosts resplendent shine, Jehovah!—Lord of Hosts, the glory shall be thine.”
    “"Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.”
    “The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple.”
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noun

  1. (often, plural)A burial shroud or garment.
    “[…]; but tell / Why thy Canoniz’d bones Hearſed in death, / Haue burſt their cerments, why the Sepulcher / Wherein we ſaw thee quietly enurn’d, / Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, / To caſt thee vp againe?”
    “Oh! when his sacred dust The cerements of the tomb shall burst, Might I be worthy at his feet to rise, To yonder blissful skies, Where angel-hosts resplendent shine, Jehovah!—Lord of Hosts, the glory shall be thine.”
    “"Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered.”
    “The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple.”
  2. (specifically)Cerecloth.

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Etymology

From French cirement (“waxing, wax dressing”), from cirer (“to wax, wrap”).

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