Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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sepulcher .
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- noun A
burial chamber . - verb transitive To place in a sepulchre.
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- noun a chamber that is used as a grave
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Examples
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King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels.
Chapter 2 2010
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Bethlehem (Ge 35: 19), where her sepulchre is still shown.
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Ephraim -- The sepulchre is at the modern village Awertah, which, according to Jewish travellers, contains the graves also of Ithamar, the brother of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar [Van De Velde].
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It was Mary Magdalene that brought the report to him, as appears, John xx. 1, 2, where this story of his running to the sepulchre is more particularly related.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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The sepulchre is still standing See Hobhouse, p. 204. ā
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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What! stuff my mouth with cotton265 ere in sepulchre Iām laid?ā
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Upon the scrubbed flagstones within the sepulchre was the square, painted in black by my very hand earlier that day and which, now, seemed to give a faint glowing light.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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And ye shall understand that before the church of the sepulchre is the city more feeble than in any other part, for the great plain that is between the church and the city.
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Within the sepulchre is a partition, and in the further part thereof is a place like an altar, where they say masse, and at the doore thereof is the stone whereupon the Angell sate when he sayde to Marie, He is risen, which stone was also rowled to the doore of the sepulchre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The altar stone within the sepulchre is of white marble, the place able to confeine but foure persons, right ouer the sepulchre is a deuise or lanterne for light, and ouer that a great louer such as are in England in ancient houses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
reesetee commented on the word sepulchre
For some reason, I prefer the British spelling to sepulcher.
July 13, 2007
cgrimm commented on the word sepulchre
"Our age is retrospective. It builds sepulchres of the fathers." (R.W.Emerson, Introduction to Nature)
March 18, 2008
RachelAnne commented on the word sepulchre
"...A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful Annabelle Lee, so that her highborn kinsmen came and bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre in this kingdom by the sea..." Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
July 15, 2011