Sepulcher /(?)/
Sep·ul·cher
Sepulcher
n.
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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.
The stony entrance of this sepulcher.
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher.
Phrases & Compounds
- A whited sepulcher
- Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27. — Matt. xxiii. 27.
Sepulcher
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Sepulchered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sepulchering
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To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.