sepulchre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English sepulchre, sepulcre, sepulker, from late Old English sepulcer, Old French sepulchre, sepulcre, and their etymon Latin sepulchrum, sepulcrum (“grave, burial place”).
Inflected forms:
form: sepulchres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sepulcher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sepulchres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sepulchring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sepulchred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sepulchred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sepulcher
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A burial chamber.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: crypt
By Mahomet, my Kinſmans ſepulcher,
And by the holy Alcaron I ſweare, […]
He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
Woe vnto you Scribes and Phariſees, hypocrites, for yee are like vnto whited ſepulchꝛes, which indeed appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all vncleanneſſe.
[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
Nor was it the human form alone which we had placed in this eternal sepulchre, whose obsequies we now celebrated.
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.
Plato, too, it is well known, considered the body as the sepulchre of the soul, and in the Cratylus concurs with the doctrine of Orpheus, that the soul is punished through its union with body.
The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend. First saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
I parked Bertha in a convenient cab rank and raced into the smoked glass sepulchre that is Hanover airport.
gloss: A recess in some early churches in which the reserved sacrament, etc. was kept from Good Friday till Easter.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To place in a sepulchre.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie
 That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
Not one of the ordinary motives—the vanity or the selfishness which people call by the name of love—actuated her through this long trial; she had everything to fear, and nothing to expect. What creation of the poet ever exceeded this terrible reality of love sepulchred in this living tomb?
Related words: sepulchral
sepulture
catacomb
cemetery
Derived words: ensepulchre
Holy Sepulchre
right of sepulchre
unsepulchre
whited sepulchre
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