sepulcher

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: sep=ul=cher

CIDE DICTIONARY

sepulcher, n. [OE. sepulcre, OF. sepulcre, F. sépulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum, sepulchrum, fr. sepelire to bury.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]
"The stony entrance of this sepulcher."  [1913 Webster]
"The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher."  [1913 Webster]

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

sepulcher, v. t. 

 To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.  [1913 Webster]
"And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sepulcher

barrow, beehive tomb, bone house, box grave, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, cromlech, crypt, deep six, dokhma, dolmen, ensepulcher, entomb, grave, house of death, inhume, inter, last home, lay away, long home, low green tent, low house, mastaba, mausoleum, monstrance, mummy chamber, narrow house, ossuarium, ossuary, passage grave, pit, plant, put away, pyramid, reliquary, resting place, sepulture, shaft grave, shrine, stupa, tomb, tope, tower of silence, tumulus, vault

ROGET THESAURUS

sepulcher

Interment

N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.