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os·su·ar·y

(ŏsh′o͞o-ĕr′ē, ŏs′yo͞o-)

n. pl. os·su·ar·ies

A container or receptacle, such as an urn or a vault, for holding the bones of the dead.

[Late Latin ossuārium, from neuter of Latin ossuārius, of bones, from os, oss-, bone; see ost- in Indo-European roots.]

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ossuary

(ˈɒsjʊərɪ)

n, pl -aries

(Archaeology) any container for the burial of human bones, such as an urn or vault

[C17: from Late Latin ossuārium, from Latin os bone]

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os•su•ar•y

(ˈɒʃ uˌɛr i, ˈɒs yu-)

n., pl. -ar•ies.

a place for the bones of the dead.

[1650–60; < Latin ossuārium, derivative of ossu(a) bones]

ossuary

- From Latin os, "bone," it is any receptacle—urn, vault, etc.—for the bones of the dead.

ossuarium, ossuary

a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead. See also death.

ossuary

noun

A burial place or receptacle for human remains:

catacomb, cinerarium, crypt, grave, mausoleum, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb, vault.

Translations

Ossuarium

ossuary

[ˈɒsjʊərɪ] N → osario m

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ossuary

n → Ossarium nt; (= building also) → Beinhaus nt

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VATICAN CITY * The Vatican press office said that the results of a morphological analysis of bones and bone fragments found at an ossuary in a Vatican cemetery concluded that none belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, an Italian teenager who went missing more than 30 years ago.

Vatican: Bones found at cemetery do not belong to missing girl

Asked about Portera's comments on a large number of bones, Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said in an email it was "absolutely normal that in an ossuary there is an elevated number of remains, above all in an ancient cemetery like the Teutonic (is).

Vatican college space holds bones of dozens, expert says

The community started to construct the Gothic church in the 15 th century, thus many bones were moved and stacked in pyramids in the ossuary beneath the new building.

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The city museums will also open their gates, including a guided tour of the ossuary under the Chapel of Saint Jakub.

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This is The central message will concentrate on the Bowl Hole Ossuary in the crypt, which is the last resting place of the people who lived in Bamburgh 1,400 years ago, when it was the cosmopolitan centre of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria.

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Eighteen victims from the previous war were identified today in the ossuary of the Prahulje cemetery in Travnik.

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Each of Dybek's three central characters has a tie to the site of the carnage--beginning in 1921 with Tom Combs, a young American ambulance driver working for the church, collecting remains from the battlefield to be placed in a huge ossuary, which will eventually hold the remnants of 130,000 French and German soldiers.

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At present, ETFFI graduates, under the supervision of industry experts, are working on the restoration of Paco Park's ossuary. This section was once a cemetery during the colonial period.

Paco Park preservation efforts seek community participation

They choose to be interred in a columbary or ossuary. And the Church is OK with that as long as the remains are buried,' Pascual said.