CHARNEL HOUSE vs OSSUARY: NOUN
- A vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored
- A place, usually under or near a church, where the bones of the dead are deposited; formerly, and still in parts of Brittany, a kind of portico or gallery, in or near a churchyard, over which the bones of the dead were laid after the flesh was consumed.
- A scene or place of great physical suffering and loss of life.
- A building, room, or vault in which the bones or bodies of the dead are placed; a charnel.
- A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
- A bone-cave, or deposit formed largely of bones, belonging to late geological times.
- A vase, casket, or other vessel for the reception of the bones or calcined remains of the dead.
- A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel-house.
- A container or receptacle, such as an urn or a vault, for holding the bones of the dead.
- Any receptacle for the burial of human bones
CHARNEL HOUSE vs OSSUARY: RELATED WORDS
- Moldering, Corpses, Detritus, Ghastly, Pigpen, Soulless, Hellhole, Wasteland, Hovel, Rubbish heap, Catacomb, Cesspool, Graveyard, Fetid, Charnel
- Artifact, Amphora, Tumulus, Tombstone, Necropolis, Stela, Inscription, Artefact, Archaeological, Archeological, Sepulcher, Stele, Tomb, Reliquary, Urn
CHARNEL HOUSE vs OSSUARY: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Flyblown, Squalid, Moldering, Corpses, Detritus, Ghastly, Soulless, Wasteland, Hovel, Rubbish heap, Catacomb, Cesspool, Graveyard, Fetid, Charnel
- Artifact, Amphora, Tumulus, Tombstone, Necropolis, Stela, Inscription, Artefact, Archaeological, Archeological, Sepulcher, Stele, Tomb, Reliquary, Urn
CHARNEL HOUSE vs OSSUARY: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Assisted by a young German surgeon named Singer and an elderly retired surgeon named Gallaudet, we the students were initiated into the charnel house.
- Several of the planting crew had lost their meager lunches in the charnel house, so Sam sent them outside to dig the grave.
- So it was that Vesta found herself the sole living person in the palace that had become a charnel house.
- Cementerio de Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis, main avenue of old section, to the left Charnel House, camera facing west.
- In the very charnel house is the nursery of production and animation.
- This place was a frightening charnel house where there were many bones, skulls and human hair.
- Now it asks whether something worthwhile can be built atop that charnel house.
- After the decomposition had occurred, the bones were gathered and most of them placed into an ossuary for more permanent storage.
- The exterior of the ossuary preserved an inscription, probably referring to the adult male whose name was Jehohanan.
- But when the Bhumij chiefs claimed Rajput status, they shed their tribal affiliations by renouncing the clan ossuary at Bhula.
- Lots of background on the James Ossuary and its inscription is and oh so many links.
- The Sedlec Ossuary, if you have the nerve, is a remarkable experience.
- Later His bones would have been placed in an ossuary and lost to the passage of time.
- The Ossuary Gates is the multilayered catacomb graveyard.
- Roman crucifixion nail was discovered in a Jewish ossuary on the northeast outskirts of Jerusalem.
- The Baroque chapel of St. Michael was built as an ossuary in 1640.
- Parts of the film were made on location at Sedlec Ossuary.
CHARNEL HOUSE vs OSSUARY: QUESTIONS
- What are some of the minor annoyances in charnel house?
- How do you get to the ossuary in the ruined square?
- What is the significance of the James Ossuary in Jerusalem?