Sepulchre
[sepәlkә]
Definition
(n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
(v. t.) To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Written also Sepulcher.] Tomb, grave, ossuary, charnel-house, narrow house, long home.
Typist: Tabitha
Definition
n. a place of burial: tomb: a burial vault: a recess in some early churches in which the reserved sacrament &c. were laid from Good Friday till Easter.—v.t. (Milt.) to place in a sepulchre: to bury or entomb.—adj. Sepul′chral pertaining to a sepulchre or to monuments erected for the dead: (fig.) deep hollow in tone.—n. Sep′ulture act of burying the dead: interment: burial.—v.t. to entomb.
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Examples
- We have seen, in these old churches, a profusion of costly and elaborate sepulchre ornamentation such as we never dreampt of before. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Greek Chapel is the most roomy, the richest and the showiest chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I return in my grave-clothes, a pledge restored from the very sepulchre, and every one I speak to vanishes as soon as they hear my voice! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You had better have tarried there to fight for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre, said the Templar. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Well, then, all the world, at that time, was in a wild excitement about the Holy Sepulchre. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A dog Jew, echoed the Templar, to approach a defender of the Holy Sepulchre? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Haroun-al-Raschid, says Gibbon, sent Charlemagne by his ambassadors a splendid tent, a water clock, an elephant, and the keys of the Holy Sepulchre. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One naturally goes first to the Holy Sepulchre. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They took Jerusalem, and interfered with the Christian access to the Holy Sepulchre. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Heaven protect the Sepulchre when this tribe invades Jerusalem! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Stooping low, we enter the vault--the Sepulchre itself. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nothing has any fascination for us, now, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, envy and uncharitableness were apparent here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nor was it the human form alone which we had placed in this eternal sepulchre, whose obsequies we now celebrated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The Church of the Nativity is almost as well packed with exceeding holy places as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre itself. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. Plato. The Republic.
- Gray lizards, those heirs of ruin, of sepulchres and desolation, glided in and out among the rocks or lay still and sunned themselves. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Near Tiberias these banks are rocky, and ancient sepulchres open in them, with their doors toward the water. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Or do the dead, not rising from stone-sealed sepulchres, Renew those quarrels below, which on earth ended their existence? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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