[f. URN sb. Cf. INURN v.] trans. To deposit (ashes, or bones) in a cinerary urn; to enclose in or as in an urn. Also transf.
1612. Two Noble K., I. i. 47. He will not suffer us … To urne their ashes.
1651. W. Barker, in Cartwright, Poems, b 7. Their scatter’d Ashes are rak’t up and Urn’d.
1744. Young, Nt. Th., VII. 830. When horror universal shall descend, And heav’n’s dark concave urn all human race.
1849. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., LXVI. 380. Nature has, during a season, cased and urned its torpid and death-like repose.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, II. 87. The gathered bones In a bronze casket Corinæus urned.
† b. To place in a tomb; to bury. Obs.–1
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. V., xli. Richard, whose Bones … Slept in a Cottage; Harry doth remove To better lodging; vrnes him, like a King.
