Theſe were called by a general Name χοιμη|ήεια, Cœmeteria, Dormitories or Sleeping‐Places, becauſe they eſteemed Death but a Sleep, and the Bodies there depoſed not properly Dead, but only laid to ſleep till the Reſurrection ſhould awaken them.
1727C.E., Claude Fleury and Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, Eccleſiaſtical Hiſtory., T. Wood; Volume I, book VII, page #442:
Æmelius ſays : I perceive that ye are ungrateful and inſenſible of the goodneſs of the Emperors ; wherefore ye ſhall not continue in this city, but I will ſend you towards Libya, into a place called Kefro, which I have choſen by their order; and neither you nor any one elſe ſhall be permitted to aſſemble people together, nor to enter into thoſe places which ye call Cœmeteria.
1738C.E., John Ray, Travels Through the Low Countries; Volumes 1–2, Of Malta, page #268:
I omitted to mention the ancient Cœmeteria, or ſub‐terraneous burying‐places called Catacumbe, of which there be many in Malta, becauſe of theſe we have already had occaſion to diſcourſe in our deſcription of Syracuſa in Sicily.
1810C.E., William Cave, Apostolice, Solomon Wiatt; Volume II, The Life of St. Dinoysius, Bishop Of Alexandria, quoting Æmilian, pages 504–505:
Nor shall either you, or any of your sect have leave to keep your meetings, or to frequent your cœmeteria ; which if any dare to attempt, it shall be at his peril, and he shall be punished suitably to his crime.
1844C.E., Joseph Bingham and Richard Bingham, Origines Ecclesiasticæ; Volume VII, Chapter VII, § 3, page #134:
And, in after‐ages, churches were built over these graves, which were therefore called martyria, areæ, cœmeteria, mensæ, and memoriæ martyrum ; as I have shown at large in a former Bookj.
1851C.E., John Whitgift, The Works of John Whitgift; Tract V, §§ 6–7, page #537:
If by cœmeteria or churchyards those places be meant that be about the churches, where we use to bury the dead (as it is most like they be), then hear I no reason at all why you should in such manner speak of them, except you will pluck down whatsoever hath beforetime been appointed, be it never so ancient, and the use thereof convenient and necessary. There is no doubt but by cœmeteria are meant places of burial, which because they have been (as you confess) “ at all times certain, especially in the peace of the church,” it is meet that they should so still remain.
