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Definition of incineration:

  • (noun) the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes

Sentence Examples:

I am not advocating obligatory incineration in times of peace except in cases of infectious and contagious disease.

During the lifetime of the doctor no fee whatever was charged for incineration in his furnace.

Finally, and in apparent coincidence with the bronze culture, comes a new custom of incineration.

Would it not be an achievement to prove that incineration is not necessarily a barrier against identification?

I rejoice at the thought that most writers on the momentous subject of incineration were medical men.

There were no ceremonies at the incineration, and the remains were reduced to ashes in two hours.

Did his exemption and freedom from original sin preserve him from this corruption and incineration?

Without the clerical sphere it bears no such high-sounding names, being simply called 'incineration of corpses.'

I then made the address of the evening, giving the main arguments for incineration as opposed to earth-burial.

The work of incineration was continued and clouds of smoke marked the passage of the federal army.

The origin of incineration, as appears from what I have said, is surrounded with a great deal of obscurity.

They burned their dead, and Meyer thinks that incineration spread northward and westward from this center.

The utmost privacy would be insured, and no strange eyes could gaze upon it during the period of incineration.

And here also is incineration just about frequent enough to make it uncertain whether the human remains are typical or not.

He praised incineration as the best mode to dispose of the dead, and to preserve the remains of the departed.

Later I was told of the "incineration" and his eloquent defense of me, and I thanked him for it.

He then proposed, since the matter was creating a disturbance in the neighborhood, to transfer the incineration to the lake shore.

No incineration occurred in this apparatus since that time, owing to a refusal of the Saxon government to permit the same.

He asserts that when consideration of cost of collection is excluded, the rendering of garbage is distinctly more profitable than incineration.

She had quite recovered the effects of her late incineration; and had got a complete new coat of the silkiest fur.

Leguminous substances, and more particularly mineral salts, are detected by the examination of the ash left upon the incineration of the flour.

The incineration being completed, by reversing the process the cradle with the ashes is extracted intact and allowed to cool.

They are feeding to swine, dumping on land, dumping into large volumes of water, disposing by sanitary fill, burial, incineration and reduction.

My native country was always eager to embrace deserving reforms; there is no reason why it should not adopt the superior system of incineration.

In some cities where the refuse is disposed of by incineration, the municipality does the collecting and delivers to a privately owned disposal plant.

It is moreover a well-known fact, that a considerable quantity of fuel is required to consume a dead body, whereas in this combustion, incineration is most rapid.

It may be possible that incineration owes its origin to the ancient nomadic tribes that burnt their dead and carried the ashes with them.

If the charges made by the anti-cremation party were true, incineration, if established, would offer facilities for the commission and concealment of hideous crimes.

The question of suitable disposal of sewage depends on the circumstances of each town or village, but incineration is the most sanitary method during an epidemic.

Here all incineration establishments are under government control, and are to be found not only in all the chief cities, but also in the provinces.

Well, the model found that, depending on the angle of entry, the impact can produce a massive corridor of incineration ahead of the impact site.

Where the combined collection of garbage, rubbish and ashes is used the city disposes of all these wastes either by dumping or by total incineration.

It seems to be the prevailing opinion that in order to make incineration a success the material must be burned at a high temperature and rapid rate of combustion.

It may even happen that, by some extra care, the process of incineration may be the most efficient means of detecting poisoning by arsenic and mercury.

They knew then how the incineration of a human body takes place with difficulty, and behold their king and his minister had burnt all alone!

On the other hand, when incineration begins to appear in this place, the human remains still left to us are of a mixed and far more broad-headed type.

All the same, I felt that if I were alone in a burning house, and there were no one but Leonard Boyce to save me, I should prefer incineration to rescue.

Incineration of bones is not practiced by any of them, neither do their traditions mention this custom to have ever existed among them; they have a horror of the idea.

One should not listen to the emotions in a matter like this, but study incineration to be able to judge of it; objections founded on sentiment only are sure to be wrong.

These results usually give the percentage composition of the ash as produced by incineration rather than the proportions in which the different mineral ingredients occur in the food material.

Sands, clays, the waters of rivers or springs, are scarcely ever perfectly free from iron, while animal and vegetable substances likewise afford it in the residues which they leave after incineration.

Writing that has been done with an ordinary lead pencil can usually be rendered visible by carefully regulating the heat during the incineration, so as not to burn away the graphite.

That it is the result of a soil highly charged with particles of matter, arising from the decay or incineration of human bodies, is the only theory by which we may account for the phenomenon.