inurn

1. (transitive) To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container.Examples: "[…] the Sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn’d Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, To cast thee vp againe"; "[…] 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."; "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;"Synonyms: bury, ensepulchre, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to resttransitive

2. (transitive) To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died).Examples: "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, Over the insensible marble, which inurns their ashes, a nation bows prostrate in the lowly attitude of mourning,"; "[…] as the plough turns Some warlike relic from the sod, Whose mould the battle-ranks inurns,"transitive