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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The arca, or family sepulture, can no longer be traced in the church.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
At the eastern end of both aisles, are two places, formerly appropriated as places of sepulture for the two great Lords of Ashby.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
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.
In the matter of royal sepulture, it is certain that the whale had an immense advantage.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey
The place of sepulture of Luigia de' Medici is unknown; her remains were most probably deposited, without monumental inscription, in the vaults of San Lorenzo, the gentilizia church of her house.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
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