Sepulcher

Word SEPULCHER
Character 9
Hyphenation sep ul cher
Pronunciations /ˈsɛpəɫkɚ/

Definitions and meanings of "Sepulcher"

What do we mean by sepulcher?

A burial vault. noun

A receptacle for sacred relics, especially in an altar. noun

To place into a sepulcher; inter. transitive verb

To bury; inter; entomb.

A tomb; a cave, building, etc., for interment; a burial-vault. noun

In eccles. arch., a recess in some early churches, in which were placed on Good Friday, with appropriate ceremonies, the cross, the reserved sacrament, and the sacramental plate, and from which they were taken at high mass on Easter, to typify the burial and resurrection of Christ. noun

The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb. noun

Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27. noun

To bury; to inter; to entomb. transitive verb

A burial chamber. noun

To bury the dead. verb

A chamber that is used as a grave noun

A burial chamber.

A place made of rock or cut into rock used to bury a dead person in. Urban Dictionary

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The word "sepulcher" in example sentences

Called the Chamber of Paladine, the sepulcher was a large rectangular room, built far below the ground where the destruction of the Tower did not affect it. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1985)

Often this is in a little detached garden, containing a small stone building (where there is no rock), resembling a house, which is called the sepulcher of the family -- it has neither door nor window. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Her watchfulness is untiring; she who guarded the sepulcher was the first to approach it, and the last to depart from its awful yet sublime scene. ❋ Unknown (1872)

In the context of the original inscription with nesna in it (TLE 372: Θestia Velθurnas nesna), if we are to pursue her avenue of reasoning, it should then be better translated as "sepulcher" (hence "Thestia Velthurna's sepulcher") given its archaeological context. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A confirmation of this aversion on the part of some members of the Commission for the expression "sepulcher" can be found in N. Giampietro, op. cit, p. 312. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Inside the church, priests and pilgrims held a festive procession around the ancient stone sepulcher of Jesus. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There was a sharp report; mason swung into his aerial sepulcher, and Malemute Kid lashed the dogs into a wild gallop as he fled across the snow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is too terrible to picture, more awful than anything, these mournful screams like a sonic grave, an aural sepulcher. ❋ Margaret Cho (2011)

His story concludes with this hybrid verse: "There laid they Jesus, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, and departed." ❋ Stephen Prothero (2011)

There was a genuinely creepy encounter with the Lich King inside a sepulcher at the Vrykul city of Gjalerbron. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)

Your workspace will become a wide open plain rather than a sepulcher of records of the past. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He had excavated the fabulous tomb of Seti I at Abydos, and in London he hoped to exhibit a reproduction of the sepulcher. ❋ Gerard Helferich (2011)

A brief visit to the old Pygg boneyard showed that indeed there was such a crypt as in my dream, its doorway rotting on the hinge; and at back the sepulcher was, as in dreams, attached to a wall adjoining the old hotel. ❋ Andrew Edwards (2011)

“And in the end of the Sabbath, when it began to dawn on the first day, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

They [wept] as they placed [the child's] body in the sepulcher. He placed a [bouquet of roses] at his love's sepulcher each year on her birthday. ❋ Strand (2013)

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