sepulchre

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

CIDE DICTIONARY

sepulchre, 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.

sepulchre, 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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sepulchre, n. & v. (US sepulcher)
--n. a tomb esp. cut in rock or built of stone or brick, a burial vault or cave.
--v.tr.
1 lay in a sepulchre.
2 serve as a sepulchre for.

Idiom

the Holy Sepulchre the tomb in which Christ was laid. whited sepulchre a hypocrite (with ref. to Matt. 23:27).

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L sepulc(h)rum f. sepelire sepult- bury