A place of burial, a tomb; now usually = prec.
1382. Wyclif, Gen. xxiii. 4. Gif ȝe to me ryȝt of a biryyng place with ȝow.
c. 1450. Merlin, iii. 57. Uter … lete write vpon eche beryinge place his name that lay vnder.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., III. 330. Burying places were called Cæmeteria, Sleping places.
1611. Bible, Gen. xlix. 30. The caue … which Abraham bought … for a possession of a burying place.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 132. Every Person may have a Burying-place in his own Estate.
1870. F. Wilson, Ch. Lindisf., 65. The burying-place around it has been used within memory.
