[a. Fr. exhumation, ad. med.L. exhumātiōn-em, n. of action f. exhumā-re to EXHUME.] The action or process of digging up or removing (a body, etc.) from beneath the ground. Also, an instance of this.
1797. W. Seward, Suppl. to Anecd., 288. Tracts relative to the exhumation in the great church at Dunkirk.
1819. Southey, in Q. Rev., XXI. 373. The details of this barbarous exhumation are curious.
1831. Brewster, Newton (1855), II. xxiv. 344. The dead body of Arsenius was, after exhumation, produced before the council of Tyre.
1851. D. Wilson, Preh. Ann. (1863), II. III. vi. 163. The exhumation of two examples of this remarkable class of oaken cists.
1869. E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3), 114. Febrile affections produced by exhumations … of bodies.
