Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cremation \Cre*ma"tion\ (kr?-m?"sh?n), n. [L. crematio.]
   A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead.

         Without cremation . . . of their bodies. --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.

Source : WordNet®

cremation
     n : the incineration of a dead body