verb
definition
To treat a corpse with preservatives in order to prevent decomposition.
definition
To perfume or add fragrance to something.
Examples of embalmed in a Sentence
The embalmed body of the saintly founder is to be seen to this day in a side chapel of the church.
Their bodies are then embalmed and shipped to schools.
Before the time of the Middle Kingdom it became usual for the rich to have their bodies embalmed.
His influence was due partly to his astronomical and mathematical eminence, but still more to the ascetic dignity of his nature and his superiority to ordinary weaknesses - traits which legend has embalmed.
This windscreen plunges down to the bonnet meeting the wide grille with the Citroen emblem firmly embalmed which those lovely teardrop light clusters flank.
People that have decided to have an eco-burial are not embalmed.
A body is kept cool in order to preserve it at the funeral home; those who choose an eco-burial are not embalmed.
His heart, embalmed and enshrined in a coffin of ebony and silver, which she always kept beside her, was, at her death in 1290, buried with her in the precincts of the abbey, which thus acquired its name (Abbacia Dulcis Cordis, or Douxquer).
Especially in ancient Egypt the fibre occupied a most important place, linen having been there not only generally worn by all classes, but it was the only material the priestly order was permitted to wear, while it was most extensively used as wrappings for embalmed bodies and for general purposes.
Cremation is never performed on the body of a Jewish person, and the body is not embalmed.
His heart, taken from the body when it was embalmed, and given to Madame Denis and by her to Madame de Villette, was preserved in a silver case, and when it was proposed (in 1864) to restore it to the other remains, the sarcophagus at Sainte Genevieve (the Pantheon) was opened and found to be empty.
The body was embalmed and filled with aromatic herbs, and then brought to this region, passing through the lands of various tribes.
Markham, in his introduction to the narrative of Clavijo's embassy, states that his body "was embalmed with musk and rose water, wrapped in linen, laid in an ebony coffin and sent to Samarkand, where it was buried."
Travellers' tales were deliberately embalmed by Swift in the amber of his irony.
Very near his end he had the lugubrious curiosity to cause the coffins of his embalmed ancestors to be opened at the Escorial.
Rosa exhibits the embalmed body of that saint, a native of Viterbo, who died in her eighteenth year, after working various miracles and having distinguished herself by her invectives against Frederick II.
His body was recovered with difficulty, and, having been embalmed, was buried with imposing ceremony at the public expense on the 7th of June.
The body of Gustavus Adolphus was embalmed at Weissenfels after the battle of Lutzen.
The Guanches embalmed their dead; many mummies have been found in an extreme state of desiccation, each weighing not more than 6 or 7 lb.