Vulgar words in Notes and Queries, Number 31, June 1, 1850 (Page 1)

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Wherefore was this mode of disposing of the dead bodies called "an ass's sepulture?"

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It is not sufficient to say that the body of a human being was buried like that of a beast, for then the term would be general and not particular; neither can I imagine that Christian writers used the phrase for the purpose of repudiating the accusation preferred against them by Pagans, of worshipping an ass.

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