[f. as prec. + -MENT.] The action of entombing; lit. and fig.
1666. Alsop, Maryland (1869), 78. They give him no other intombment than [etc.].
a. 1677. Barrow, Wks. (1686), III. 218. It [idleness] is the very entombment of a man.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LII. 420/1. Like the double entombment of Napoleon, it [the French Revolution] was inhumed alike at Marengo and at Waterloo.
1876. Mozley, Univ. Serm., iii. 69. What an entombment of mind, should we have!
