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Buriall, Buriel(l, n. Also: burial(e, bwriall, bur(e)yall, bwr-, bureall; bourial, beurial, buiriall; burriall, -eal; buirral, burral; buryel, bwriel, burel, burrell. [ME. buryall, buryel(l, replacing earlier buryels, -iels, OE. byrᵹels. See also Beriall n.² and Beris n.]

1. A burying-place; a grave or tomb.(a) 1568 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 5.
Ane lok to the bwriall at the blak freris 1576 Edinb. Test. IV. 370 b.
His body to be bureit … within the buriall of Eglisgrig 1578 Ib. VI. 110.
Hir body to be bureit in the commoun burrall 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 174.
That the calsay and hie wynd leiding to the Grayfreiris port is fillit vp with the red of euery manis bigging, … speciall fornent the buriall 1585 Dundee B. Laws 520.
The brabenairis … being convenit within the holff and comowne burriall [of Dundee] 1605 Edinb. Test. XL. 280 b.
I promisit to the laird of Grange … to big ane buriall in Monifeith … xx merkis 1622-6 Bisset II. 163/19.
Dunstaffaige wes thair buryall of befoir 1657 Balfour Ann. IV. 352.
He … was interrid in his auen buriall, in the ile of Dalkeith churche(b) 1611 Reg. Panmure I. xcv.
It wes thought to heawe beine Cames the cheif mans bwriel Ib. cxlvi.
Nether is thear any appeirance in that part of grawes or any bwriel

2. An interment or funeral.(a) 1560 Rolland Seven S. 239/7.
The buriall with greit solempnitie Was maid and done 1599 St. A. Kirk S. 883 marg.
Almous dealing at buriallis dischargeit 16.. Hist. Kennedy 21.
Me Lord and his heill freindis was … at the bureyall of Iohne Chalmeris wyff 1616 Haddington Corr. 131.
The bwreall of my lady and sister being on the samin day 1637 Stirling B. Rec. II. 389.
The disobedience of the breithren that ar wairnit to ryd to burialls with the magistrats c 1650 Rep. Hist. MSS. I. 255.
Ane nott of the charges deburst on the … burriall of umquhile Agnas Stannapes 1666 Elgin Rec. II. 305.
No preaching be reasone of my Lord Duffus ladies buirrall 1668 Ib. 306.
The rest of his nightbors to be rebuiked for not contenancing his buiriall 1681 Irvine Mun. II. 102.
The Provist … went to Killburny and his Ladies burriall both one that daij(b) 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 16.
The Lordis concluded the buriel to be vpoun Thuirsday the fourt of Februar 1603 Moysie 23.
A great number of freindis wes conuenit to the buriell 1614 Rec. Earld. Orkney 381.
To the belman for ringing belis to the gudmanis buryell 1642 Kinghorn Kirk-S. 41.
Finding it allwayes inexpedient that anie buriell should be there

3. Attrib. with clathe, day, dure, dyke, lair, man, roum, silver, stane, ȝarde. 1569 Soc. Ant. VI. 52.
Blak stemmyng to be ane buriall cleyth vpoun my Lordis beir — c 1578 Maxwell Mem. I. 313.
The lard of Pollok defunctis buriall day — 1563–4 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 191.
Ane hingand lok to the bak of the buriall dur — 1565–6 Ib. 234.
The greit hole in the buriall dyke — 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. viii. 13.
We shall be blessed with the bed-fellowship of Iesus in our buriall lare — 1585 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 443.
Commissioun … to speik the foure burialmen … and agrie for thair wedges — 1623 Misc. Maitl. C. I. 465.
That the licience … sall not infer … any propertie or kyndnes of burreal roume in the saidis plaicis — 1608 Edinb. Test. XLIV. 161 b.
To pay the said Iohnne Smallis buriall siluer 1626 Elgin Rec. II. 194.
Four poundis of the buriall silver 1647 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 78.
The said buriall siluer to be payit to the … maister of kirkwark — 1620 Breadalbane Doc. (Reg. H.) No. 437.
To … tak away aney buriall stane aff any graive — 1568 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 6.
For playning & couering the buriall ȝaird quhair the boche folk war bureit 1581 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 218.
Ane young trey in the buriale yarde plantit be the town 1600 Ib. V. 295.
The roume and plaice in the buriall yaird quhair sumtyme wes situat the Grayfreiris