sepulture

[ sep-uh l-cher ]

/ ˈsɛp əl tʃər /

the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.

sepulcher; tomb.

Origin of sepulture

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin sepultūra, equivalent to sepult(us) (past participle of sepelīre to bury) + -ūra -ure

se·pul·tur·al

[suh-puhl-cher-uh l] /səˈpʌl tʃər əl/, adjective

The trees were only in clumps, and marked the tops of ridges, the sites of villages or the places of sepulture.

Stanley in Africa |James P. Boyd
Under one of these lie five children of Judge Story, removed from another place of sepulture to this beautiful spot.

Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume II (of 2) |Harriet Martineau
Lead this woman before me, he said, to the place of sepulture, which thou knowest.

Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from The Arabian Nights |Edmund Dulac
The skeleton and many of the objects found with the sepulture were partly tinted in red.

Men of the Old Stone Age |Henry Fairfield Osborn

If they prove that he has led a sinful life, the judges condemn him, and he is excluded from the place of his sepulture.

History of Embalming |J. N. Gannal

sepulture

/ (ˈsɛpəltʃə) /

the act of placing in a sepulchre

an archaic word for sepulchre

C13: via Old French from Latin sepultūra, from sepultus buried, from sepelīre to bury