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Definition of sepulchre in English: sepulchre(US sepulcher) noun ˈsɛp(ə)lkəˈsɛpəlkər A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried. Example sentencesExamples - Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see.
- Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’.
- All around, she could feel the shapes of sepulchres and headstones.
- The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre.
- Hardening my heart with all the memories of the times mother and I visited the sepulcher where father's ashes lay in the soil, I put another foot forward.
- And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock.
- The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James.
- The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre.
- And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
- The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
- For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres.
- And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
- He sees the stone rolled away from the grave of Lazarus and three men approach the sepulchre where the man's body lies.
- Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him.
- In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below.
- In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’.
- In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
- He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered.
- His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
- So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Synonyms tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid grave Archaeology mastaba rare undercroft
verb ˈsɛp(ə)lkəˈsɛpəlkər [with object]literary 1Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre. tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries Synonyms bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn - 1.1 Serve as a burial place for.
when ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'. Definition of sepulcher in US English: sepulcher(British sepulchre) nounˈsepəlkərˈsɛpəlkər A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried. Example sentencesExamples - All around, she could feel the shapes of sepulchres and headstones.
- The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre.
- He sees the stone rolled away from the grave of Lazarus and three men approach the sepulchre where the man's body lies.
- For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres.
- Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see.
- In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below.
- And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
- Hardening my heart with all the memories of the times mother and I visited the sepulcher where father's ashes lay in the soil, I put another foot forward.
- Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him.
- In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
- Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’.
- The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre.
- In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’.
- So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
- And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
- The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
- And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock.
- His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
- The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James.
- He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered.
Synonyms tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid
verbˈsepəlkərˈsɛpəlkər [with object]literary 1Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher. tomes are soon out of print and sepulchered in the dust of libraries Synonyms bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn - 1.1 Serve as a burial place for.
when ocean shrouds and sepulchers our dead
Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’. |