Bur″i‐al (�), n. [OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher.] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture.
The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened.
Wycliff.
2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. “To give a public burial.” Shak.
Now to glorious burial slowly borne.
Tennyson.
Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body. — Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. — Burial place, any place where burials are made. — Burial service. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service.
Syn. — Sepulture; interment; inhumation.