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potter's field
noun
, (sometimes initial capital letters)
- a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matthew 27:7.
potter's field
noun
- a cemetery where the poor or unidentified are buried at the public expense
- New Testament the land bought by the Sanhedrin with the money paid for the betrayal of Jesus (which Judas had returned to them) to be used as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor (Acts 1:19; Matthew 27:7)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of potter's field1
First recorded in 1520–30
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Example Sentences
Since the Whigs have the town again tis thought fitting to restore it to its old resting place in the Potters Field.
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The four bodies were taken away in an express wagon and buried in the Potters field.
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And you were dead in a potters field before your sixteenth birthday.
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And they took counsel, and bought with them the potters field, to bury strangers in.
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A third of the way back, in this potters field of dead-and-gone laughter, a man was hunched in a despondent posture.
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