ossuary in English

noun
1
a container or room into which the bones of dead people are placed.
The ossuary contains the bones from six different people, including a male aged about sixty.

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1. The recently discovered ossuary

2. Thus, the origin of the ossuary is shrouded in mystery.

3. The ossuary inside the sanctuary is square with a vaulted ceiling.sentencedict .com

4. 14 synonyms for Crypt: vault, tomb, catacomb, ossuary, undercroft, catacomb, cinerarium, grave, mausoleum

5. Blockhouse is the second level of The Ossuary, the fourth episode of Heretic, and the first of the Shadow of the Serpent Riders expansion

6. Eickhof Makes The Ossuarium® Eickhof's patented Ossuarium is a unique hybrid of a Pre-Assembled Columbarium with a center ossuary

7. Regarding the ossuary of Caiaphas, see the article entitled “The High Priest Who Condemned Jesus,” in The Watchtower of January 15, 2006, pages 10-13.

8. The artifact was found in a stone box, called an ossuary, into which the dried bones of a deceased person were placed after the flesh had decomposed.

9. It is a 2,000-year-old burial ossuary —a decorated limestone chest into which the bones of a deceased person were placed after the flesh had decomposed.

10. The deceased was placed in a recess carved into the wall of a burial cave; after the flesh had decomposed, the bones were collected and placed in an ossuary—a container usually of decorated limestone.”

11. A Cist (/ ˈ s ɪ s t / or / ˈ k ɪ s t /; also kist / ˈ k ɪ s t /; from Greek: κίστη, Middle Welsh Kist or Germanic Kiste) is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead.Examples can be found across Europe and in the Middle East