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Corpses an inspection and dissection of a body after death, usually to determine the cause of death. Also called necropsy, post-mortem examination. an obsession with death or the dead. — necromaniac, n. the practice of feeding on carrion. — necrophage, n. — necrophagous, adj. an abnormal attraction, especially erotic, to corpses. — necrophile, necrophiliac, n. 1. an abnormal fear of death. Also called thanatophobia. 2. an abnormal fear of corpses. — necrophobe, n. — necrophobic, adj. autopsy. 1. the dissection of corpses. 2. the surgical excision of a piece of dead bone. — necrotomist, n. — necrotomic, adj. the exhuming and stealing of bodies from graves, especially for dissection; body snatching. — resurrection man, n. necrophobia, def. 1. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A dolorous place it was, this canoe house, filled with groans and sighs, corpses beneath the floor and composing the floor, creatures soon to be corpses upon the floor, corpses swinging in aerial sepulchre overhead, long black canoes, high-ended like beaked predatory monsters, dimly looming in the light of a slow fire where sat an ancient of the tribe of Somo at his interminable task of smoke-curing a bushman's head. If nothing else but corpses were eaten, death would be unknown. With one swing of his mighty longsword he laid a dozen corpses at his feet, and so he hewed a pathway before him until in another moment he stood upon the platform beside me, dealing death and destruction right and left. |
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