embalmment

But all the old languages are dead, and the literary form is their embalmment.

Making use of an aborted baby and through special embalmment techniques.

The state required any funeral home to have at least one undertaker's license, which involved taking an embalmment class.

What is the security of a tomb, or the perpetuity of an embalmment?

Oil of cedarwood was highly prized for its use in embalmment, medicine and perfumery.

The ritual of embalmment must be carried out, something which I must learn before it is too late.'

There had been numerous beetles out here when she and George had returned from the ritual of embalmment.

The other enemy dead are to be treated with all respect, and allowed embalmment and a decent burial.

To be brief, in whatever condition the individual was, at the period of embalmment, in that condition he remained.

But Jewish laws consider embalmment a mutilation of the body and forbids Jews to perform it.

Aromatics were used in magic and healing (which included different forms of massage) and for cosmetics and embalmment.

Her embalmer, Pedro Ara, wanted her embalmment to equal that of Lenin.

The Hyksosian tradition called for cremation, not embalmment and elaborate funeral procedures and ceremonials.

In performance, this production of "The King and I" comes off as a pretty good embodiment of the title's pronoun and an embalmment of its potentate.

I repeat that the leading principle of embalmment consisted, with us, in the immediately arresting, and holding in perpetual abeyance, all the animal functions subjected to the process.

Dwelling in the realm of the ideal, those photographers did not indulge in flattery so much as in a kind of loving embalmment, manufacturing idols out of alabaster and cream.

"Why, it is the general custom in Egypt to deprive a corpse, before embalmment, of its bowels and brains; the race of the Scarabaei alone did not coincide with the custom.

The next scene represented the embalmment of the body, which lay stark upon a table with depressions in it, similar to the one before us; probably, indeed, it was a picture of the same table.

Presenter of "Eyebrow Hairs From Cadavers as a Unique and Reliable Source of DNA for Profiling after Embalmment" poster at the Promega Meeting in October 2006.

On the seventieth day after the Queen's death, on the night that the long ritual of her embalmment had been completed, that star had appeared suddenly in the heavens, a great red star that glowed where none had been before.

Gogarty carried out Griffith's official autopsy and embalmment, and went on to perform the same offices for Michael Collins, another close friend whom Gogarty had often sheltered in his Ely Place home prior to his assassination.

After the days of embalmment were accomplished the body of Pharaoh Meneptah was carried up the Nile to be laid in his eternal house, the splendid tomb that he had made ready for himself in the Valley of Dead Kings at Thebes.

Julian Assange recently stepped out wearing one, and last week there was a sort of official embalmment of the mask as a symbol of popular feeling when Shepard Fairey altered his famous "Hope" image of Barack Obama to portray a protester wearing one.

Mr. Gliddon was of opinion, from the redness of the epidermis, that the embalmment had been effected altogether by asphaltum; but, on scraping the surface with a steel instrument, and throwing into the fire some of the powder thus obtained, the flavor of camphor and other sweet-scented gums became apparent.