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- noun Plural form of
ossuary .
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Examples
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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): These simple stone boxes known as ossuaries are at the heart of the controversy, the subject of the documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus."
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WEDEMAN (voice over): These simple stone boxes know as ossuaries are at the heart of the controversy, the subject of the documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus".
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WEDEMAN (voice over): These simple stone boxes know as ossuaries are at the heart of the controversy, the subject of the documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus".
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Most pantheons had smaller niches called ossuaries, where the bones taken from the graves would be collected.
Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003
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Much more important are those which have been collected in Palestine, among which are several dedications of synagogues of the first centuries of the Christian era, dedications of tombs somewhat prior to our era, epitaphs graven on small stone coffers, called ossuaries which mostly belong to the first century of our era.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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It was Jewish custom in the first century A.D., that the bones of the deceased were transferred from burial caves to limestone boxes called ossuaries one year after their death.
Reasons to Believe - 2009
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It was Jewish custom in the first century A.D., that the bones of the deceased were transferred from burial caves to limestone boxes called ossuaries one year after their death.
Reasons to Believe - 2009
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Her appraisal of the decades since, in terms of her personal experiences and the larger world, is delivered in a sequence of 15 "ossuaries," some of which she narrates, others that are in the third person.
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Call them relics, taxidermy, ossuaries, medical oddities, or just a good story of legendary dismemberment -- these 12 morbid spots keep the curious coming back.
Trazzler.com: Severed Body Parts! 12 Frightful Spots for Losing Your Head (PHOTOS) Trazzler.com 2010
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Call them relics, taxidermy, ossuaries, medical oddities, or just a good story of legendary dismemberment -- these 12 morbid spots keep the curious coming back.
Trazzler.com: Severed Body Parts! 12 Frightful Spots for Losing Your Head (PHOTOS) Trazzler.com 2010
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