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mortuary

[ mawr-choo-er-ee ]

noun

plural mortuaries.
  1. a customary gift formerly claimed by and due to the incumbent of a parish in England from the estate of a deceased parishioner.


adjective

  1. of or relating to the burial of the dead.
  2. pertaining to or connected with death.

mortuary

/ ˈ³¾É”˳Ùʃʊə°ùɪ /

noun

  1. Also calledmorgue a building where dead bodies are kept before cremation or burial
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to death or burial
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mortuary1

1350–1400; Middle English mortuarie < Medieval Latin ³¾´Ç°ù³Ù³ÜÄå°ù¾±³Ü³¾, noun use of neuter of Latin ³¾´Ç°ù³Ù³ÜÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ of the dead, equivalent to mortu ( us ) dead + -Äå°ù¾±³Ü²õ -ary
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of mortuary1

C14 (as n, a funeral gift to a parish priest): via Medieval Latin ³¾´Ç°ù³Ù³ÜÄå°ù¾±³Ü³¾ (n) from Latin ³¾´Ç°ù³Ù³ÜÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ of the dead
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Bodies covered in white sheets were also taken to the hospital's mortuary.

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"Is this the truce they are talking about?" he told Reuters news agency as he stood beside her body at a mortuary.

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They began by looking at where a person had been staying, the beach they were recovered from and where they were in the mortuary.

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The scale of Wendy's injuries meant they were not able to visit the mortuary to say goodbye.

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Savile's work as an entertainer with the BBC and his charitable efforts gave him unsupervised entry to sensitive areas like hospital wards, schools and mortuaries, where he abused vulnerable people.

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