Found 2 items, similar to sepulture.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sepulture
sepulture
n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn:
burial,
entombment,
inhumation,
interment]
2: a chamber that is used as a grave [syn:
burial chamber,
sepulcher,
sepulchre]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sepulture
Sepulture
\Sep"ul*ture\, n. [F. s['e]pulture, L. sepultura, fr.
sepelire, sepultum, to bury.]
1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in
the grave; burial; interment.
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Where we may royal sepulture prepare. --Dryden.
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2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.
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Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's
reason. --Chaucer.
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