The Huacas or huge pyramidal burial mounds of these people, which were so constructed that each added body, with its funeral accessories, had its own clay-mortar enclosure, prove also that some rude attempt at embalmment was practised.
But we may assume that an universal system of embalmment is undesirable in our times.
The unguents for thine embalmment on the night [of mummification] have been set apart for thee, together with thy mummy swathings, which are the work of the hands of the goddess Tait.
We must return to the contradictions in regard to the embalmmentof Jesus.
If the women came on the third day to embalm the body, they certainly knew nothing of its embalmment on the day of his death.
It is evident that those who undertook the embalmment of Jesus had no thought of his resurrection within forty-eight hours.
The Greeks practised cremation, the Egyptians embalmment (previously disembowelling the body), under the belief that after the lapse of many thousands of years the soul would return to its earthly mansion.
Now the whole representation of the burial and embalmment of Jesus is evidently based upon the same chapter, and more especially upon v.
The ritual observed during the process of embalmment is preserved in late papyri in Paris and Cairo published by Maspero.
The costliest process of embalmment lasted no less than seventy days.
Goldsmith too gave its beauties the embalmment of his language; and Dr.
Mrs. Unwin has embalmment in it that will keep her memory alive, longer than would any tomb in Westminster.
Many other suppositions have arisen, but it is thought the few given above are sufficient to serve as an introduction to embalmment in North America.
Gannal believes embalmment to have been suggested by the affectionate sentiments of our nature--a desire to preserve as long as possible the mortal remains of loved ones; but MM.
Mummy Magic The treatment of the mummy and the various ceremonies in connexion with embalmment were undoubtedly magical in origin.
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.
Incidents in his career illustrative of his native and inherent greatness, are worthy of at least a casual notice not only, but of permanent embalmment in the memories of those who reaped where he sowed.
While this description brings the subject under the head before given --house burial--at the same time it might also afford an example of embalmment or mummifying.
On our arrival at the little Swiss town, we found that the embalmmenthad been begun.
He was celebrated for having revived the old Hebraic method of embalmment in spices, and improving it by the aid of the modern discoveries in antiseptics of Laskowski, Signer Franchina of Naples, and Dr.
In about seventy days, when the work ofembalmment was completed, the body was wrapped in linen bandages, placed in a coffin, and so returned to the family.
The first duty of the survivors was to preserve this from destruction, and to that end it was handed over to a guild whose duty it was to carry out its embalmment under priestly supervision.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embalmment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
