Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-HU-MA'TION
EX-HU-MA'TION, n. [Fr. from exhumer, to dig out of the ground; Sp. exhumar; L. ex and humus, ground.]
- The digging up of a dead body interred; the disinterring of a corpse.
- The digging up of any thing buried. Goldsmith.
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