a. and sb. [f. L. type *cremātōri-us, f. cremātor: see above.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to cremation.
1884. Manch. Guard., 26 Sept., 5/4. Belief in the crematory process as a sanitary measure.
1886. Morley, Life Geo. Eliot, Crit. Misc. III. 94. Leaving as little work, to the literary executor, except of the purely crematory sort, as did [etc.].
1889. Chambers’ Encycl., III. 556. Crematory furnaces … have been erected.
B. sb. A place or establishment for cremation; spec. an erection for the incineration of corpses.
1876. L. Tollemache, in Fortn. Rev., Jan., 118. The aspect of death might be a little softened, if cemeteries gave place to crematories.
1885. Times, 27 March, 10/4. Yesterday morning the crematory erected at St. John’s, Woking, Surrey, was made use of for the first time.
