Pyre
[paɪə] or ['paɪɚ]
Definition
(noun.) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite.
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Definition
(n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Funeral pile.
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Definition
n. a pile of wood &c. on which a dead body is burned.—adj. Pyr′al.
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Examples
- The body is brought and the pyre fired, and then for ten days the warriors built a mighty mound to be seen afar by the traveller on sea or land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And while Cr?sus related these things, already the pyre was lighted and the edges of it round about were burning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the twelfth day he was placed on the funeral pyre and there he came to life again, and told what he had seen in the world below. Plato. The Republic.
- Concerning his return to the body, he only knew that awaking suddenly in the morning he found himself lying on the pyre. Plato. The Republic.
- The preparation of a pyre is first described. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ashes of the original British pyre which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Why were they not immolated on the pyre of the husband, like the sati in India? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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