sepulchre
11sepulchre — UK [ˈsep(ə)lkə(r)] / US [ˈsep(ə)lkər] noun [countable] Word forms sepulchre : singular sepulchre plural sepulchres old fashioned a place made of stone in which dead people are buried …
12sepulchre — /ˈsɛpəlkə / (say sepuhlkuh) noun 1. a tomb, grave, or burial place. 2. Ecclesiastical a structure or a recess in some churches of the Middle Ages in which the sacred elements, the cross, etc., were deposited with due ceremonies on Good Friday to… …
13Sepulchre — Sepulcher Sep ul*cher, Sepulchre Sep ul*chre, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sepulchered}or {Sepulchred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sepulchering}or {Sepulchring}.] To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered. [1913 Webster] And so sepulchered in such… …
14Sepulchre — Sepulcher Sep ul*cher, Sepulchre Sep ul*chre, n. [OE. sepulcre, OF. sepulcre, F. s[ e]pulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum, sepulchrum, fr. sepelire to bury.] The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that… …
15sepulchre — Used in AV, RV for the tomb of Jesus (Mark 15:46). Hence the church of the Holy Sepulchre on the supposed site in Jerusalem. The emperor Constantine built a church there in 335 CE; it was destroyed in 1009 CE. The present church, smaller than its …
16sepulchre — [12] Sepulchre comes ultimately from Latin sepelīre ‘bury, inter’. From its past participle sepultus was derived the noun sepulcrum ‘burying place, tomb’, which passed into English via Old French sepulcre. There is no etymological justification… …
17sepulchre — [[t]se̱p(ə)lkə(r)[/t]] sepulchres N COUNT A sepulchre is a building or room in which a dead person is buried. [LITERARY] (in AM, use sepulcher) …
18sepulchre — [ sɛp(ə)lkə] (US sepulcher) noun a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried. verb chiefly literary lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre. Origin ME: via OFr. from L. sepulcrum burial place …
19sepulchre — n. tomb. ♦ whited sepulchre, hypocrite; seemingly holy but really evil person or thing. ♦ sepulchral, a. pertaining to tombs; gloomy; hollow …
20sepulchre — [12] Sepulchre comes ultimately from Latin sepelīre ‘bury, inter’. From its past participle sepultus was derived the noun sepulcrum ‘burying place, tomb’, which passed into English via Old French sepulcre. There is no etymological justification… …
