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sepulchre

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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sep=ul=chre

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sepulchre has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

sepulchren. [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.
sepulchrev. 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
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