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語源

From in- +‎ urn.

動詞

inurn (third-person singular simple present inurns, present participle inurning, simple past and past participle inurned)

1. (transitive) To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

   Synonyms: bury, ensepulchre, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 3 [4]]:

     […] the Sepulcher
     Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn’d
     Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes,
     To cast thee vp againe

     the 1603 edition of the play has “interr’d”

   • 1760, Charlotte Lennox, “The Natural History of the Formica-Leo, or Lion-Pismire”, in The Lady’s Museum‎, volume 1, London: J. Newbery, page 314:

     […] it is necessary that he should pass through a period of temporary death, for which state he prepares in the following manner, building to himself a secure and convenient tomb, wherein he lies decently inurned till the appointed moment when he is to arise from his inactive state, and become the inhabitant of another element.

   • 1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto I, stanza 4, page 4:

     Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war,
     And still should be so, but the tide is turn’d;
     There’s no more to be said of Trafalgar,
     ’Tis with our hero quietly inurn’d;

   • 1994, William R. Maples, Michael Browning, chapter 10, in Dead Men Do Tell Tales‎, New York: Doubleday, page 136:

     Each one [crematory] is different, and there is a wide range in the quality of the work they do and the pains they take in combusting and inurning human remains.

2. (transitive) To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).
   • 1792, Thomas Watkins, Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople‎, London: T. Cadell, Volume 1, Letter 18, p. 350:

     Now there are no other remains of its [Hadrian’s mausoleum’s] grandeur than a ball of bronze in the Vatican, which crowned its cupola, and was supposed to inurn the ashes of its Imperial founder.

   • 1826, Caleb Cushing, Eulogy given on 15 July, 1826, in A Selection of Eulogies, Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of […] John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Hartford: D.F. Robinson, p. 21,

     Over the insensible marble, which inurns their ashes, a nation bows prostrate in the lowly attitude of mourning,

   • 1838, George Hill, “The Battle of San Jacinto”, in The Ruins of Athens; Titania’s Banquet, A Mask; and Other Poems‎, Boston: Otis, Broaders, page 79:

     […] as the plough turns
     Some warlike relic from the sod,
     Whose mould the battle-ranks inurns,

   • 1884, James Thomson, “The Poet and His Muse”, in A Voice from the Nile, and Other Poems‎, London: Reeves and Turner, page 59:

     Though you exist still, a mere form inurning
     The ashes of dead fires of thought and yearning,

アナグラム

• inrun, run in, run-in