different between inurn vs conceal

English

Alternative forms

• enurn (obsolete)

Etymology

From in- +? urn.

Verb

inurn (third-person singular simple present inurns, present participle inurning, simple past and past participle inurned)

1. (transitive) To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.

   Synonyms: bury, ensepulchre, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest

   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 [4], in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623, p. 257,^[1]

     […] the Sepulcher

     Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn’d

     Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes,

     To cast thee vp againe

     [the 1603 edition of the play has “interr’d”]

   • 1760, Charlotte Lennox, The Lady’s Museum, London: J. Newbery, Volume 1, “The Natural History of the Formica-Leo, or Lion-Pismire,” p. 314,^[2]

     […] it is necessary that he should pass through a period of temporary death, for which state he prepares in the following manner, building to himself a secure and convenient tomb, wherein he lies decently inurned till the appointed moment when he is to arise from his inactive state, and become the inhabitant of another element.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Paris: Galignani, Canto 1, stanza 4, p. 4,^[3]

     Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war,

     And still should be so, but the tide is turn’d;

     There’s no more to be said of Trafalgar,

     ’Tis with our hero quietly inurn’d;

   • 1994, William R. Maples and Michael Browning, Dead Men Do Tell Tales, New York: Doubleday, Chapter 10, p. 136,^[4]

     Each one [crematory] is different, and there is a wide range in the quality of the work they do and the pains they take in combusting and inurning human remains.

2. (transitive) To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).
   • 1792, Thomas Watkins, Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople, London: T. Cadell, Volume 1, Letter 18, p. 350,^[5]

     Now there are no other remains of its [Hadrian’s mausoleum’s] grandeur than a ball of bronze in the Vatican, which crowned its cupola, and was supposed to inurn the ashes of its Imperial founder.

   • 1826, Caleb Cushing, Eulogy given on 15 July, 1826, in A Selection of Eulogies, Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of […] John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Hartford: D.F. Robinson, p. 21,^[6]

     Over the insensible marble, which inurns their ashes, a nation bows prostrate in the lowly attitude of mourning,

   • 1838, George Hill, “The Battle of San Jacinto” in The Ruins of Athens; Titania’s Banquet, A Mask; and Other Poems, Boston: Otis, Broaders, p. 79,^[7]

     […] as the plough turns

     Some warlike relic from the sod,

     Whose mould the battle-ranks inurns,

   • 1884, James Thomson, “The Poet and His Muse” in A Voice from the Nile, and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, p. 59,^[8]

     Though you exist still, a mere form inurning

     The ashes of dead fires of thought and yearning,

Anagrams

• inrun, run in, run-in

English

Etymology

From Middle English concelen, from Old French conceler (“hide, disguise”), from Latin concel?re, infinitive of concel? (“carefully disguise”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?si?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?sil/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Hyphenation: con?ceal

Verb

conceal (third-person singular simple present conceals, present participle concealing, simple past and past participle concealed)

1. (transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

Synonyms

• hide
• obfuscate
• secrete

Antonyms

• reveal
• uncover
• admit

Related terms

• concealing, concealed
• concealer
• concealment

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