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sepulcher

[ sep-uhl-ker ]

noun

  1. a tomb, grave, or burial place.

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. Also called Easter sepulcher. Ecclesiastical.
    1. a cavity in a mensa for containing relics of martyrs.
    2. a structure or a recess in some old churches in which the Eucharist was deposited with due ceremonies on Good Friday and taken out at Easter in commemoration of Christ's entombment and Resurrection.


verb (used with object)

  1. to place in a sepulcher; bury.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ü²Ô·²õ±ð±èu±ô·³¦³ó±ð°ù verb (used with object)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sepulcher1

First recorded in 1150–1200; Middle English sepulcre, from Old French, from Latin sepulcrum, equivalent to sepul- (variant stem of ²õ±ð±è±ð±ôÄ«°ù±ð “to buryâ€) + -crum noun suffix of place
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Fans mark Marilyn Monroe’s crypt with lipsticky kisses, and are kept an enforced distance from Michael Jackson’s marble sepulcher in Glendale, at Forest Lawn.

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The monastery’s onion-domed churches and hillside sepulchers, part of a complex dating back more than four centuries, were in the line of fire.

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Dr. Reeves proposed that the tomb was, in fact, merely an antechamber to a grander sepulcher for Tutankhamun’s stepmother and predecessor, Nefertiti.

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The remnants of this Bronze Age sepulcher, nicknamed the Spanish Stonehenge, are now fully exposed for only the fifth time since the area was deliberately flooded in 1963 as part of a rural development project.

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The Senate’s official webpage says Democratic leaders assailed Nye, with Sen. Carter Glass of Virginia decrying him for “dirt-daubing the sepulcher of Woodrow Wilson.â€

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