sepulture
Americannoun
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the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
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sepulcher; tomb.
noun
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the act of placing in a sepulchre
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an archaic word for sepulchre
Other Word Forms
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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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 Bates, Katharine Lee
A lane on the left leads to the Jewish burial-ground, used as a place of sepulture for the Ghetto for many centuries.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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 Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
Cases of premature sepulture are, doubtless, extremely rare.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
As he was believed to be dead, upon the petition of the great men of England, his kinsmen, it was permitted that the monks of that place should give his body the rites of sepulture.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Brakelond, Jocelin de
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