Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See sepulcher.

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  • noun A burial chamber.
  • verb transitive To place in a sepulchre.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a chamber that is used as a grave

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  • For some reason, I prefer the British spelling to sepulcher.

    July 13, 2007

  • "Our age is retrospective. It builds sepulchres of the fathers." (R.W.Emerson, Introduction to Nature)

    March 18, 2008

  • "...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