Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inhumation

Inhumation , noun

[Compare French inhumation.]

1.
The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
2.
(Old Chemistry) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
3.
(Medicine) Arenation.