carnary

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin carnarium, from caro, carnis (flesh).

Noun[edit]

carnary (plural carnaries)

  1. A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disinterred from their original burial places; a charnel house.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carnary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)