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sepulchral, a.|sɪˈpʌlkrəl|
[ad. L. sepulcrālis, f. sepulcr-um sepulchre n.: see -al1. Cf. F. sépulcral, Sp., Pg. sepulcral, It. sepolcrale, sepulcrale.]
1. Of or pertaining to burial or a place of burial.
a. Pertaining to or serving as a sepulchre or tomb; forming part of a sepulchre, or its furniture; monumental.
sepulchral cone: a cone of baked clay found in some Egyptian tombs, intended to represent offerings of food.
a1631Donne Poems, Ecstacie 18 We like sepulchrall statues lay. 1645Milton Passion vii, Mine eye hath found that sad Sepulchral rock That was the Casket of Heav'ns richest store. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 43 Sepulchral Lies, our holy walls to grace, And New-year Odes, and all the Grub⁓street race. 1740Gray Let. in Poems (1775) 85 A sepulchral marble at the villa Giustiniani. 1781Cowper Conversat. 358 Old sepulchral urns. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. ii. v. 423 The sepulchral-lamp,..burning through long ages to light up the entombed ashes. 1904Budge 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Mus. 107 A collection of baked clay ‘cones’, stamped with the names and titles of princes, chiefs, and officials who were buried in the necropolis of Thebes... The objects are commonly called sepulchral cones.
b. Pertaining to rights and customs connected with burial, funeral.
1615Chapman Odyss. iii. 430 Thus hauing slaine him; a sepulchrall feast He made the Argiues. 1729G. Adams tr. Sophocles, Antig. ii. iv. II. 29 She..copiously adorns the Carcase with sepulchral Libations. 1863D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (ed. 2) I. iii. 76 The system of human sacrifices was not unknown among early Roman sepulchral rites.
†c. (See quot.) Obs.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., Sepulchral Hereticks, were thus call'd from their principal Error, which was, That by the Word Hell, whither the Scripture tells us Jesus Christ descended after his Death, they understood his Sepulcher.
2. transf. Suggestive of a sepulchre, appropriate to a tomb; dismal, gloomy, melancholy.
a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 73 Sepulchral Cypress, Lawrel, Pine, and Bays, Yew, and all Trees, whose Verdure ne're decays, Are planted in long Rows, where Mourners walk. 1796Southey Rudiger xli, A deep sepulcral sound the cave Return'd. 1840J. T. J. Hewlett P. Priggins v, His laugh..was a sepulchral oh! hah! which issued from his chest without any sympathetic movement of the muscles of his face. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lxvii, The sepulchral Ezra.
†3. Like a tomb, serving to entomb. Obs.
1801Southey Thalaba i. xxii, For this..The silkworm of the East Spun her sepulchral egg. 1802E. Darwin Orig. Soc. iv. 61 With monstrous gape sepulchral whales devour Shoals at a gulp. |