Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who prepares materials for embalming the dead.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Rom. Antiq.) One who prepared corpses for the funeral.
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- noun
undertaker
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[864] Cp. Tert., de Scorp. vii.: “funesta religio, lugubres ritus, ara rogus, pollinctor sacerdos” (the deadly religion, the mournful ceremonies, the altar-pyre, and the undertaker-priest).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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* funesta religio, lugubres ritus, ara rogus, pollinctor sacerdos: [1919] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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