OSSUARY Definition & Meaning

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ossuary

[ osh-oo-er-ee, os- ]

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noun

plural ossuaries.

a place or receptacle for the bones of the dead.

ossuary

/ ˈɒ��ʊə��ɪ /

noun

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

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of ossuary¹

1650–60; < Late Latin �ǲ��ܳ�, variant of �ǲ��ܳ�, equivalent to oss- (stem of os ) bone + -��ܳ� -ary

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of ossuary¹

C17: from Late Latin �ǲ��ܳ�, from Latin os bone

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Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.

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But Southern California has always been an ossuary of failed publications done in by apathetic readership, clueless owners or a combination of both.

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The layering suggests geological strata, or the arrangement of skulls in a medieval ossuary.

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He was buried in a specially designed crypt in the cathedral which he commissioned that will be the resting place of all future archbishops after the remains of their predecessors are transferred to an ossuary.

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One bone of contention for him — just one vertebra in an ossuary of contention, really — is that I have not made a pilgrimage to meet his new child.

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