rare. [f. L. tumulā-re to bury + -TION.] Burying, interment; spec. interment in a tumulus or grave-mound.
1623. Cockeram, Tumulation, a burying or enterring.
1827. J. Anderson, Ess. St. Soc. & Knowl. Highl., 138. Burning before tumulation seems to have succeeded simple interment.
