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Noun
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1. The practice of burying someone alive.

#* April 2003, Journal of British Studies:
#*: Thus, to characterize the Victorian worry about premature burial as a product of 'morbid romanticism,' or of the 'sheer mythopoeic force' of vivisepulture, is to ignore the deep confusion over human physiology that persisted into the twentieth century.

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• 2007-08-07 03:29 - Rodasmith - I think it's the noncountable practice, not the countable act.

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