From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cremation
n 1: the incineration of a dead body
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cremation \Cre*ma"tion\ (kr?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. crematio.]
A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.
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Without cremation . . . of their bodies. --Sir T.
Browne.
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