Inhuman
(In*hu"man) a. [L. inhumanus: cf. F. inhumain. See In- not, and Human.]

1. Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.

2. Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.

Syn. — Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage; barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.

Inhumanity
(In`hu*man"i*ty) n.; pl. Inhumanities [L. inhumanitas: cf. F. inhumanité.] The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.

Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Burns.

Inhumanly
(In*hu"man*ly) adv. In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.

Inhumate
(In*hu"mate) v. t. [L. inhumatus, p. p. of inhumare to inhume; pref. in- in + humare to cover with earth. See Humation, and cf. Inhume.] To inhume; to bury; to inter. Hedge.

Inhumation
(In`hu*ma"tion) n. [Cf. F. inhumation.]

1. The act of inhuming or burying; interment.

2. (Old Chem.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.

3. (Med.) Arenation.

Inhume
(In*hume") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhumed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhuming.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See Inhumate.]

1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain,
Inhume the natives in their native plain.
Pope.

2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.


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