Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-HU'MATE, or IN-HUME'
IN-HU'MATE, or IN-HUME', v.t. [Fr. inhumer; L. inhumo, humo, to bury.]
- To bury; to inter; to deposit in the earth, as a dead body.
- To digest in a vessel surrounded with warm earth. Encyc.
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