| 单词 | sepulture |
| 释义 | sepulture (once / 11714 pages) n WORD FAMILY sepulture: sepultures USAGE EXAMPLESIn the matter of royal sepulture, it is certain that the whale had an immense advantage. Bartlett, William Chauncey, A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed.(2012) Might he not have risen in wrath out of his sarcophagus to see these frivolous moderns thus making merry in the place of his sepulture? Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), From Egypt to Japan(2012) All heretics who died without confession or recantation were thus self-condemned, and were ineligible to sepulture in consecrated ground. Lea, Henry Charles, A History of The Inquisition of The...(2012) 1n the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave Syn|Hyper burial, entombment, inhumation, interment funeral a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated 2n a chamber that is used as a grave Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre Holy Sepulcher the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection Mausoleum at Halicarnasusa white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402 Taj Mahalbeautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife crypt a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) mausoleuma large burial chamber, usually above ground monument, repositorya burial vault (usually for some famous person) burial vault, vaulta burial chamber (usually underground) charnel, charnel housea vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited columbariuma sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns chamber a natural or artificial enclosed space grave, tomba place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) |
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