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noun

Sepulture n.

The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment. "Where we may royal sepulture prepare."

A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. "Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's reason."

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Etymology of 'Sepulture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sepulture" Quotes from Famous Books

... cemetery never grows," commented Jose, stopping at the crumbling gateway and peering in. The place of sepulture was the epitome of utter desolation. A tumbled brick wall surrounded it, and there were a few broken brick vaults, in some of which whitening bones were visible. In a far corner was a heap of human bones and bits of ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... cast on shore; Mr Shelley's was found near Via Reggio, and, being greatly decomposed, and unfit to be removed, it was determined to reduce the remains to ashes, that they might be carried to a place of sepulture. Accordingly preparations ...

— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt

... foreign to the object of this work fully to trace the early history of the dog. Both in Greece and in Rome he was highly estimated. Alexander built a city in honour of a dog; and the Emperor Hadrian decreed the most solemn rites of sepulture to another on account ...

— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

... women of America and of the World! Will you not honor the memory of this martyr of your sex, who for all time will be mourned as was the noblest Greek maiden, Antigone, who also gave her life that her brother might have the rites of sepulture? Will you not carry on in her name and for her memory those sacred ministrations of mercy ...

— The Case of Edith Cavell - A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants • James M. Beck

... Willingly would he have lain down and died, could that have secured their surviving him. But it was a fate that threatened all alike. On this account, he was wishing that either he or one of his comrades, Murtagh or Saloo, might outlive the young people long enough to give them the rites of sepulture. He could not bear the thought that the bodies of his two beautiful children were to be left above ground, on the desolate shore, their flesh to be torn from them by the teeth of ravenous beasts or the beaks of predatory ...

— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid

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