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Webster 1913 Edition

Exhumation

Exˊhu-ma′tion

,

Noun.

[Cf. LL.

exhumatio

, F.

exhumation

.]

The act of exhuming that which has been buried;

as, the

exhumation

of a body

.

Webster 1828 Edition

Exhumation

EXHUMA'TION

,

Noun.

[L. ex and humus, ground.]

1.

The digging up a dead body interred; the disinterring of a corpse.

2.

The digging up of any thing buried.