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Since the 1920s, it has been standard practice for American morticians to embalm corpses, to disinfect them so decomposition is delayed.
In his 1755 Dictionary , Samuel Johnson derided the idea that a dictionary "can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation."