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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

By Ottillie Gobel Reed, onetime wife of the famed "Sausage King"; from Sigwart John Reed, architect; at Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Gobel met Dr. Reed while selecting a suitable sepulchre for her first husband.

From Time Magazine Archive

The house was a sepulchre, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

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

Make the word sepulchred fit metrically into the iambic verse.

From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton

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

From The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy

Time silently unveils the sepulchred remains, leaving fancy to expatiate as she will on a topic wholly beyond the scope of mortal intelligence.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

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