A place of burial; a place, as a vault, church, piece of ground, etc., set apart for the interment of the dead; a burying-place.

1

1633.  Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, 482. The graves of his Companies and Complices are set in the sides of the Buriall place.

2

1715.  Lond. Gaz., No. 5375/2. They broke into the Burial-Place of the Family of Rothes.

3

1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v. Burial, Westminster abbey is the burial-place of most of our English kings.

4

1867.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. vi. 513. The population … had a burial place of their own.

5

1875.  Higginson, Hist. U. S., vi. 42. Cabot gave England a continent—and no one knows his burial-place.

6