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1. archaic : to place in or as if in a sepulchre : bury. 2. archaic : to serve as a sepulchre for. Did you know? The history of sepulchre is a grave tale. The earliest evidence in our files traces sepulchre (also spelled sepulcher) back to Middle English around the beginning of the 13th century.
noun [ C ] old use (US also sepulcher) uk / ˈsep. ə l.kə r/ us / ˈsep. ə l.kɚ / Add to word list. a stone structure where someone is buried. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Places where bodies are buried or cremated. burial ground. catacomb. cemetery. charnel house. churchyard. columbarium. crematorium. crematory. crypt. graveside.
A sepulcher is a burial vault or tomb, like the one that is featured prominently in the final scenes of Romeo and Juliet. (Of course, for those who haven’t read the play yet, we’re not suggesting that anyone dies, necessarily.)
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.
n. 1. A burial vault. 2. A receptacle for sacred relics, especially in an altar. tr.v. sep·ul·chered, sep·ul·cher·ing, sep·ul·chers. To place into a sepulcher; inter. [Middle English sepulcre, from Old French, from Latin sepulcrum, sepulchrum, from sepultus, past participle of sepelīre, to bury the dead .]
A sepulcher (or if you’re British you’ll spell it sepulchre) is basically a stone room with a stone coffin where your body lies. The word comes from the Latin sepulcrum, which means “burial place,” for obvious reasons. Pronouncing sepulcher could trick you, because the ch actually sounds like a k: "SEP-ul-ker."
A sepulchre is a building or room in which a dead person is buried. [literary] Synonyms: tomb, grave, vault, mausoleum More Synonyms of sepulchre. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. You may also like. English Quiz. Confusables. Synonyms of. 'sepulchre' Language Lover's. Blog. French Translation of.
noun. a burial vault, tomb, or grave. Also calledEaster sepulchre a separate alcove in some medieval churches in which the Eucharistic elements were kept from Good Friday until the Easter ceremonies. verb. tr to bury in a sepulchre. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of sepulchre 1.
How to use . sepulcher in a sentenceIts name translates to “Cave of the Stone sepulcher,” but locally it is called by a nickname that means “a place of fear.”
noun. 1. a vault for burial; grave; tomb. 2. Roman Catholic Church. a small, sealed cavity, holding martyrs ' relics, in a flat rectangular or square stone forming the top or part of the top of an altar. verb transitive. 3. to place in a sepulcher; bury.
