Sepulcher

Definition of Sepulcher

Sep´ul`cher

n.

1.

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.

- Shak.

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher.

- John xx. 1.

A whited sepulcher
Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27. - Matt. xxiii. 27.

v. t.

1.

To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.

[imp. & p. p. Sepulchered or Sepulchred ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Sepulchering or Sepulchring ( ).]

And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

- Milton.

Related Words

burial chamber, burial vault, chamber, crypt, grave, Holy Sepulcher, Holy Sepulchre, mausoleum, monument, repository, sepulchre, sepulture, tomb, vault

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