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

Sir Walter Scott, who has made “Old Mortality” the subject of a novel, intended to rear a tombstone to his memory, but was unable to discover his place of sepulture.

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In the matter of royal sepulture, it is certain that the whale had an immense advantage.

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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?

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Moreover, from the date of the peace of Paris until the end of his life he earnestly and vainly endeavored to obtain from Rome permission for the sepulture of his father’s body.

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The parish churches at last came to claim the bodies of their parishioners as a matter of right, and to deny to the dying the privilege of electing a place of sepulture.

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