Definitions for cinerary

cinerary cin·e·rar·y

Spelling: [sin-uh-rer-ee]
IPA: /ˈsɪn əˌrɛr i/

Cinerary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in cinerary (aceinrry).

Definitions for cinerary

adjective

  1. holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies:

Origin of cinerary

1740-50; New Latin cinerārius; see cineraria

Examples for cinerary

Is a corridor filled with cinerary urns, chiefly from Volterra, bearing recumbent figures, ludicrously stunted.

In the introduction of the funeral pile and the cinerary urn, we have one important evidence of the adoption of novel rites.

It is solid; the cinerary urn was probably placed underneath.

More than two hundred Gallic sepulchres and cinerary urns have been brought to light.

One of these was discovered, alongside of a cinerary urn, in a tumulus at Memsie, Aberdeenshire.

The cairn and tumulus, the cist and cinerary urn, all occur accompanied with contemporary relics.

The date of this tomb cannot precede the Antonine era, as there are no cinerary urns in it.

"Bring me a cinerary urn," said he, and he walked forward to the dying embers.

The cinerary urns found in Berkshire undoubtedly contain the ashes of the Anglians who came south under Penda in the 7th century.

In striking contrast to these minute sepulchral relics, many of the Scottish cinerary urns are of an unusually large size.

Word Value for cinerary
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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