exhumer

From exhume +‎ -er.

exhumer (plural exhumers)

1. One who exhumes.
   • 1835, William Light, The Last Voyage, page 346:

     […] he had also satisfied his mind that it had been done consistently with the rights of man, although neither Paine, nor the exhumer of his bones had ever ventured into his country, to instil into the ductile minds of the natives the principles of their philosophy.

   • 1848, William Stirling Maxwell, Annals of the Artists of Spain, page 992:

     Lucia del Monte, in that city he painted a picture representing Pope St. Pasquale, a great church-builder and exhumer of holy corpses.

   • 1910, Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, N.Z.: Polynesian Society, page 72:

     As each skull was taken out, the exhumer held it up to the view of the onlookers, when a wailing cry would be heard as they greeted the remains of their dead relative.

   • 1996, Fritz Spiegl, Fritz Spiegl's Sick Notes, page 137:

     Resurrectionist: […] since about 1776, an exhumer and stealer of corpses which were later (or perhaps better, sooner) sold to anatomists for dissection and research.

   • 2005, J. Patrick Greene, Medieval Monasteries, page 56:

     In the medieval period monks were enthusiastic exhumers of the mortal remains of the holiest of individuals.

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin exhumāre, from Latin ex- + humō (“to bury”).

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exhumer

1. to exhume

   Coordinate term: inhumer

• exhumation

• “exhumer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.