sepulture
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsɛpəɫtʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈsɛpəɫˌtʃʊə(ɹ)/
sepulture
- (uncountable) The act of sepulchring, committing the remains of a deceased person to the grave or sepulchre.
- 1715-20, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer
- By thy own soul! by those who gave thee breath!
By all the sacred prevalence of prayer;
Ah, leave me not for Grecian dogs to tear!
The common rites of sepulture bestow.
To soothe a father's and a mother's woe:
Let their large gifts procure an urn at least,
And Hector's ashes in his country rest.
- By thy own soul! by those who gave thee breath!
- 1715-20, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer
- (archaic) Alternative form of sepulchre.
- (act of sepulchring) interment
sepulture (sepultures, present participle sepulturing; past and past participle sepultured)
- (transitive) To inter in a sepulture.
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