0 to preserve (a dead body) from decay by treatment with spices or drugs -- balzamovat
The Egyptians embalmed the corpses of their kings.
His body was embalmed and a memorial service was held on board on the 13th.
It also describes, in detail, current methods of embalming, cremation, and burial and of the natural process of decomposition of bodies.
Thus, at the same time that we glorify them, we make them useless, turning them into a wall or embalming them in a museum.
She will not be absorbed into the idle gentlemanly body; and she turns to poison in his mouth, and his nutrient-free liquid diet embalms him alive.
Embalming was a separate charge and was an extra £25 or in some cases £40.
We do not wish to embalm such places, to make no changes, but to control and slow down the rate of change.
Embalming before burial is fairly normal there; it is not here.
They might just as well have been embalmed, but they were living when they were not really here.
