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mortician U.S.|mɔːˈtɪʃən|
[f. L. mors, mort- death (cf. mort n.1) + -ician.]
An undertaker; one who arranges funerals.
1895Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 14 Aug. (Advt.), We, Mank & Webb, are the only Morticians in the city who do not belong to the Funeral Director's Protective Association. 1915Literary Digest 16 Jan. 130/3 The word ‘mortician’ is a recent innovation due to a need felt by undertakers for a word more in keeping with, and descriptive of, their calling. 1927Glasgow Herald 1 Oct. 10/7 As the jury troop out of their boxes every tread of their heels will mean another call for the mortician. 1930Punch 18 June 696 He passed me on to a mortician... His prices..were huge, but then he was mortician to all the best movie-stars' husbands. 1948Christian Cent. 4 Feb. 146/1 Give the morticians credit—their cosmetic arts are highly skilled. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 14/2 This sentiment also fits glovelike over the mortician chapel. Ibid. 43/2 It is therefore ironic that the present Life feature..should have so mortician-like an air. Ibid. 62/1 Our refusal to face death at all in the mortician parlor. 1953‘M. Innes’ Christmas at Candleshoe i. 10 He is a bald pale person from Buffalo, where he carries on the profession of mortician. 1958Oxf. Mag. 30 Oct. 49/2 Well—hush!—there it is, a thing of beauty in a mortician's parlour; embalmed but—see there!—quite conscious. 1972Lebende Sprachen XVII. 34/1 US mortician..undertaker. |