ppl. a. [f. BURY v.]
1. a. Laid in a grave, interred. b. Laid, sunk or concealed under ground.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 37. Byryyde [1499 biryed], sepultus.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Nov., 159. That did her buried body hould.
1715. Pope, Ep. Addison, 16. Some bury’d marble half preserves a Name.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, III. i. Some open rocks and mountains, and lay bare Their buried treasures.
1844. Tupper, Proverb. Philos., 388. In company of buried kindred.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, 9. A flint instrument from below a buried trunk of one of these pines.
2. transf. and fig.
1812. Byron, To Thyrza, ‘And thou art dead,’ 71. More thy buried love endears Than aught, except its living years.
1844. Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), I. i. 48. How they, buried in an obscure corner of the earth, dared to oppose.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., cxxi. Sad Hesper [watches] o’er the buried sun.
