English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin cinefactio, from cinis (ashes) + facere (to make). Compare French cinéfaction.

Noun edit

cinefaction (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) cineration; reduction to ashes

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cinefaction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)