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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

Veneration for the sepulchre and reverence for the dead belong to the most ancient instincts of the human race.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the crackling warmth of the fire and the smell of purifying incense the room seemed less of a sepulchre.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

With a wildering moan leave the Buried alone In their tomb in the quivering heart: While it pours its wild blood in a hot lava flood Round its beautiful sepulchred Dead.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Yet there, like a crushed pearl upon a heap of garbage, lingers the trace of beauty; and there, surely, though sepulchred in the caverns of vice, dwells something that was once innocence, and not unredeemable.

From Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession by Benjamin Wood

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

The hare in her form, too, was being warmly sepulchred with the rest.

From A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

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