Sepulture

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sepulture \Sep"ul*ture\, n. [F. s['e]pulture, L. sepultura, fr.
     sepelire, sepultum, to bury.]
     1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in
        the grave; burial; interment.
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              Where we may royal sepulture prepare. --Dryden.
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     2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
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              Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's
              reason.                               --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sepulture
       n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: {burial}, {entombment},
             {inhumation}, {interment}]
       2: a chamber that is used as a grave [syn: {burial chamber}, {sepulcher},
           {sepulchre}]