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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Sepulcher

· Sep·ul·cher · IPA /ˈsɛpəlkɚ/
01 n. 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.
  1. 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.
Phrases & compounds
A whited sepulcherFig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27. — Matt. xxiii. 27.
02 v. t. To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.
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.” Milton.