interment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
    burial; sepulture; inhumation; entombment.

WordNet

In*ter"ment noun
Etymology
OE. enterment, F. enterrement. See Inter, v. t.
Definitions
  1. The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation. T. Warton.

Webster 1913