burial ground

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burial ground (plural burial grounds)

  1. A cemetery or graveyard.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 178:
      They apparently have a theory that the indefinable psychic gift that they call magic, and which we might designate "psychicism", can be acquired by accosting the soul of a murdered man in a burial ground at midnight.

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