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Funeral pile

   Also found in: Wikipedia 0.03 sec.
a structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.

See also: Funeral



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And on the twelfth day, as he was lying on the funeral pile, he returned to life and told them what he had seen in the other world.
I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.
She burned furiously, mournful and imposing like a funeral pile kindled in the night, surrounded by the sea, watched over by the stars.
 
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