What does sepulchre mean?
Definitions for sepulchre
sepul·chre
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Princeton's WordNet
burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulturenoun
a chamber that is used as a grave
Wiktionary
sepulchrenoun
A burial chamber.
sepulchreverb
To place in a sepulchre.
Etymology: * From sepulcre and sepulcre, from sepulcrum
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sepulchrenoun
A grave; a tomb.
Etymology: sepulcre, Fr. sepulchrum, Lat.
To entail him and’s heirs unto the crown,
What is it but to make thy sepulchre? William Shakespeare, Henry VI.Flies and spiders get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of any king. Francis Bacon.
There where the virgin’s son his doctrine taught,
His miracles, and our redemption wrought;
Where I, by thee inspir’d, his praises sung,
And on his sepulchre my offering hung. George Sandys.Perpetual lamps for many hundred years have continued burning, without supply, in the sepulchres of the ancients. John Wilkins.
If not one common sepulchre contains
Our bodies, or one urn our last remains,
Yet Ceyx and Alcyone shall join. Dryden.To Sepulchreverb
To bury; to entomb.
Etymology: from the noun.
Go to thy lady’s grave, and call her thence;
Or, at the least, in her’s sepulchre thine. William Shakespeare.I am glad to see that time survive,
Where merit is not sepulcher’d alive;
Where good men’s virtues them to honours bring,
And not to dangers. Ben Jonson.Thou so sepulcher’d in such pomp do’st lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. John Milton.Disparted streams shall from their channels fly,
And, deep surcharg’d, by sandy mountains lie,
Obscurely sepulcher’d. Matthew Prior.
Wikipedia
sepulchre
A tomb (Greek: τύμβος tumbos) is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called immurement, although this word mainly means entombing people alive, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial.
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sepulchre
A sepulchre is a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried, essentially a tomb. The term is often used in a historical or religious context.
Webster Dictionary
Sepulchrenoun
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
Sepulchreverb
to bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered
Etymology: [OE. sepulcre, OF. sepulcre, F. spulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum, sepulchrum, fr. sepelire to bury.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sepulchre
sep′ul-kėr, n. a place of burial: tomb: a burial vault: a recess in some early churches in which the reserved sacrament, &c., were laid from Good Friday till Easter.—v.t. (Milt.) to place in a sepulchre: to bury or entomb.—adj. Sepul′chral, pertaining to a sepulchre, or to monuments erected for the dead: (fig.) deep, hollow in tone.—n. Sep′ulture, act of burying the dead: interment: burial.—v.t. to entomb. [Fr.,—L. sepulchrum—sepelīre, sepultum, to bury.]
Anagrams for sepulchre »
sepulcher
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sepulchre in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sepulchre in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of sepulchre in a Sentence
A small Franciscan community started to live in the Holy Sepulchre in 1333, so you can imagine what it means for us, this place, ...The responsibility to pray in the place in which Jesus conquered death, to pray for all those who are, in this moment, very (much) in the face of death.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
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