a. [f. URN sb. + -ED1.]
1. Deposited or buried in an urn. Also fig.
1631. Earl Manch., Al Mondo, 25. Many times … the vrned bones doe meete with foule hands.
1849. Carlyle, in Reid, Life Houghton (1890), I. 435. I know no more urned books than his. It is like the writing of a ghost.
2. Of the nature of, effected in, a cinerary urn.
1909. A. Reid, Regality Kirriemuir, i. 3. Urned cists, a crannog, and canoes, are among the recorded ‘finds.’
1911. J. Ward, Rom. Era Brit., viii. 138. Cremation was supplanted by inhumation, but not suddenly, the skeleton followed by an urned interment implying an overlap.
