0 a place, often next to a church, where dead people are buried --
1 a place where dead people are buried --
The by now ruined church was demolished in 1824 but part of the walls of the adjoining graveyard and a couple of lime trees remain until this day.
Every hundred years or so, the entire graveyard was leveled (although of course at a higher level than before), and the whole process would begin again.
We do not want the witch, we will meet him/her at the graveyard.
Rather than a temporal coincidence, the graveyard of civil rights legislation was the same place where crime bills were born.
We do not want the traitor, we will meet him/her at the graveyard.
The one with familiars is not sought for, we will meet him/her at the graveyard.
Oh, but, oh, the world ruled by seriousness alone is an old world, a grave, graveyard world.
Next comes the evidence for the many uses of graveyards, and for charnel houses, mortuary houses and attitudes to cemeteries and skeletal remains.