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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

In front of the small dark door of a stately sepulchre, kneels a woman's figure in black, alone, anonymous, the mother of the Unknown Soldier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was there someone here? f • • • Maester Luwin stepped toward the open sepulchre, torch in hand.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Hundreds of bodies, like pillars of ice, embalmed in snow, are now sepulchred in those drifts, there to sleep till the fires of the last conflagration shall have consumed their winding sheet.

From Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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

From The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

His bones lie sepulchred under the eternal snows of the Arctic pole.

From Mountain Moggy The Stoning of the Witch by William Henry Giles Kingston

Make the word sepulchred fit metrically into the iambic verse.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton

Keep still possession of thy gloomy place,   That all the faults which in thy reign are made   May likewise be sepulchred in thy shade!

From The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare

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