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• a variation of sepulcher.

sepulchre

American  

[sep-uhl-ker] / ˈsɛp əl kər /

noun

Chiefly British.

sepulchred, sepulchring

1. sepulcher.

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sepulchre British  

/ ˈsɛpəlkə /

noun

1. a burial vault, tomb, or grave

2. Also called: Easter sepulchre. a separate alcove in some medieval churches in which the Eucharistic elements were kept from Good Friday until the Easter ceremonies

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verb

1. (tr) to bury in a sepulchre

Etymology

Origin of sepulchre

C12: from Old French sépulcre, from Latin sepulcrum, from sepelīre to bury

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Explanation

There are many possible resting places for your body once you die, and a sepulcher is the best option if you want a fancy room made entirely from stone. Think it over, because you can only choose once. Crypts, mausoleums, sarcophagi, sepulchers: each one is a place to bury someone, with slight variations. A sepulcher (or if you’re British you’ll spell it sepulchre) is basically a stone room with a stone coffin where your body lies. The word comes from the Latin sepulcrum, which means “burial place,” for obvious reasons. Pronouncing sepulcher could trick you, because the ch actually sounds like a k: "SEP-ul-ker."

Example Sentences

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sepulchre sepulchred

In some accounts he is buried with his wife and two children next to the tomb of Jesus — the ultimate martyr’s sepulchre.

From Time ● Mar. 30, 2016

It depicts a stern risen Christ on the edge of a sepulchre; the city's name means "holy sepulchre" in Italian.

From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2014

Maurice, meanwhile, is terrified of mouldering in respectable suburbia, dragging some poor virgin into the sepulchre with him.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2013

At dawn of the third day, a worried Barabbas hid himself near the sepulchre: Would the dead man really rise from the grave, as he had heard some of the man's disciples predict?

From Time Magazine Archive

Singing and bearing candles, the nuns leave the choir and follow the priest to the sepulchre.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

My father lives sepulchred ere his time, Here in Eudocia's tomb; let me conduct thee.

From The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy

On another part of the coast we found two other corpses yet more scantily sepulchred, without so much as a cross to mark their resting-place.

From Letters from High Latitudes by Lord Dufferin

It is the woman sepulchred in a small village who finds herself most severely handicapped.

From Journalism for Women A Practical Guide by Arnold Bennett

Bury him kindly—up in the corner; Bird, beast, and gold-fish are sepulchred there; Bid the black kitten march as chief mourner, Waving her tail like a plume in the air.

From Verses for Children and Songs for Music by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Make the word sepulchred fit metrically into the iambic verse.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton

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