sepulture

American  

[sep-uhl-cher] / ˈsɛp əl tʃər /

noun

1. the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.

2. sepulcher; tomb.

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sepulture British  

/ ˈsɛpəltʃə /

noun

1. the act of placing in a sepulchre

2. an archaic word for sepulchre

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Other Word Forms

• sepultural
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of sepulture

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin sepultūra, equivalent to sepult ( us ) (past participle of sepelīre to bury) + -ūra -ure

Example Sentences

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sepulture

This done, he recited another prayer, pronounced a solemn benediction over the place of sepulture, and the body was lowered into it.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth

Might he not have risen in wrath out of his sarcophagus to see these frivolous moderns thus making merry in the place of his sepulture?

From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

Here are four rooms filled with the works of Goya—whose bones, by the way, arrived in Madrid from France for final 290 sepulture a few days before the celebration.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

At the eastern end of both aisles, are two places, formerly appropriated as places of sepulture for the two great Lords of Ashby.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

Thus died the curate of Esco, in the year 1805; he was refused ecclesiastical sepulture, and was privately buried within the walls of the tribunal.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente