rare. [ad. L. concremātiōn-em, n. of action f. concremāre to burn up, consume, f. con- altogether + cremāre to burn. In sense 1, con- is taken in the sense ‘together.’]
1. Burning together; spec. the burning alive of a widow on the funeral pyre with her dead husband.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1755. Johnson, Concremation, the act of burning many things together.
1841. Elphinstone, Hist. Ind., I. 359. The mode of concremation is various: in Bengal, the living and dead bodies are stretched on a pile.
1867. F. Hall, in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc., New Ser. III. 184. He intended, no less than the self-cremation of males, the concremation of females.
2. Burning to ashes, consumption by fire.
1860. Gen. P. Thomson, Audi Alt., III. cxxxiv. 103. Not … that it is equal to burning the Anti-Pædobaptist; but … the same in kind, only … to the pains of concremation.
1888. H. C. Lea, Lea, Hist. Inquisition, I. 308. Publicly scourged and banished by the abbot in spite of a popular demand for concremation.
