 A cenotaph is a memorial without a burial.The word "funerary" strictly means "of or pertaining to a funeral or burial", but there is a long tradition in English of applying it not only to the practices and artefacts directly associated with funeral rites, but also to a wider range of more permanent memorials to the dead.Particularly influential in this regard was John Weever's "Ancient Funerall Monuments" (1631), the first full-length book to be dedicated to the subject of tomb memorials and epitaphs.