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sepulture


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  Where  we  may  royal  sepulture  prepare.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  A  sepulcher;  a  grave;  a  place  of  burial. 
 
  Drunkeness  that  is  the  horrible  sepulture  of  man's 
  reason.  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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}] 




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