rare–0. [f. L. type *cinerā-re, cinerā-tus to reduce to ashes, of which the latter occurs in med.L. (Du Cange). In mod. F. cineration. See -ATION.] Reduction to ashes.
1708–15. Kersey, Cinefaction or Cineration.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Cineration, in chymistry, the reduction of wood, or any other combustible matter, into ashes, by means of fire…. This, others call cinefaction.
1755. Johnson, Cineration, the reduction of any thing by fire to ashes. A term of chymistry. [Hence in mod. Dicts.]
