Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of interment; burial.
- noun A sepulcher.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Burial; interment; the act of depositing the dead body of a human being in a burial-place.
- noun Grave; burial-place; sepulcher; tomb.
- To bury; entomb; sepulcher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.
- noun A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A
sepulchre . - noun uncountable The act of
sepulchering .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chamber that is used as a grave
- noun the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is said, that the Northumbrian Catholics still keep secret the precise spot of the Saint's sepulture, which is only intrusted to three persons at a time.
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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Thus, the same necessity that forced men to seek the kind of sepulture which gave the longest term of existence to their souls, compelled the gods to the same course.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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Not to speak of the tenderness of mothers for their young; and of the dangers they face to screen them from danger; with what reluctance are horses known to trample upon living bodies; one animal never passes unmoved by the dead carcass of another animal of the same species: there are even some who bestow a kind of sepulture upon their dead fellows; and the mournful lowings of cattle, on their entering the slaughterhouse, publish the impression made upon them by the horrible spectacle they are there struck with.
First Part 1909
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Not to speak of the tenderness of mothers for their young; and of the dangers they face to screen them from danger; with what reluctance are horses known to trample upon living bodies; one animal never passes unmoved by the dead carcass of another animal of the same species: there are even some who bestow a kind of sepulture upon their dead fellows; and the mournful lowings of cattle, on their entering the slaughter-house, publish the impression made upon them by the horrible spectacle they are there struck with.
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1745
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Shakespeare imbibed that horror of a violation of sepulture which is observable in many parts of his writings. "
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Shakespeare imbibed that horror of a violation of sepulture which is observable in many parts of his writings. "
Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"They believed that even subversives should receive a Christian sepulture."
Joseph Huff-Hannon: C.S.I. Buenos Aires: Un-disappearing the Disappeared 2010
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"They believed that even subversives should receive a Christian sepulture."
Joseph Huff-Hannon: C.S.I. Buenos Aires: Un-disappearing the Disappeared 2010
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This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of sepulture.
Les Miserables 2008
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None the less, he had set two men to chattering: the porter, in the convent, and he knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death.
Les Miserables 2008
andystardust commented on the word sepulture
"In the matter of sepulture, for instance, I could see no signs of crematoria nor anything suggestive of tombs."
-H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
December 17, 2008