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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Thomas Burke
• Burke, Thomas Nicholas
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• Burking
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Edmund Burke
• Robert O'hara Burke
• Sir John Bernard Burke
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Burk, J.R.
• Burk, Johann Christian Priedrich
• Burk, John
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Burke, Edmund
• Burke, Robert O'hara
• Burke, Sir John Bernard
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Edmund Burke
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• Thomas Nicholas Burke

(1):

(v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.

(2):

(v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.