Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cerement

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cere-ment
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A burial shroud or garment.

noun

Example Sentences

"[…]; but tell / Why thy Canoniz’d bones Hearſed in death, / Haue burſt their cerments, why the Sepulcher / Wherein we ſaw thee quietly enurn’d, / Hath op’d his ponderous and Marble iawes, / To caſt thee vp againe?"
"Oh! when his sacred dust The cerements of the tomb shall burst, Might I be worthy at his feet to rise, To yonder blissful skies, Where angel-hosts resplendent shine, Jehovah!—Lord of Hosts, the glory shall be thine."
""Who is the woman in the cerements?", she inconsequently wondered."
"The cerements still cling to their wasted frames, but will soon be exchanged for a gayer garb in their passage from the tomb to the temple."

Etymology

From French cirement (“waxing, wax dressing”), from cirer (“to wax, wrap”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: cirement

Inflected Forms

cerements (plural)

Derived Forms

unceremented

Synonyms

winding clothes winding sheet pall shroud winding-sheet winding-clothes

Questions

What does cerement mean?: A burial shroud or garment.
Where does cerement come from?: It is traced to French.

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