Sylvester, Du Bartas’ Weeks, Babylon.
Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared,
That underneath had veins of liquid fire
Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude
With wondrous art founded the massy ore,
Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion dross.
Milton, Paradise Lost, i. 699.
Burial. This designates now the act, but formerly the place, of interment, being the O.E. byrgels, a tomb, see N.E.D. (s. v. buriels).
And the kyng seide, What is this biriel which Y se? And the citeseyns of that citee answerèd ento him, It is the sepulcre of the man of God that cam fro Juda.—2 Kin. xxiii. 17. Wiclif.
And birielis weren openyd, and many bodies of seyntis that hadden slepte rysen up, and thei yeden out of her birielis.—Matt. xxvii. 51, 52. Wiclif.