different between inurn vs nurn

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

Verb

nurn (third-person singular simple present nurns, present participle nurning, simple past and past participle nurned)

1. Alternative form of norn

Anagrams

• runn