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Definition of Charnel house
1. Noun. A vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited.
Definition of Charnel house
1. Noun. a vault or other building in which the bones of the dead are stored ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charnel House
Literary usage of Charnel house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"-THESAURUS OP HORROR; OR, THE CHARNEL-HOUSE EXPLORED!! &c.* THIS is » very pretty
title, and we think the book is likely to have a run. ..."
2. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"... a great charnel-house, along the wall of which was a row of skulls. At the
top of a pillar forming the abutment of the wall of the ..."
3. American Poets and Their Theology by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1916)
"... a somber splendor about " The Fall of the House of Usher," and a melancholy
sweetness about " Ligeia "; but Foe's tales are tales of the charnel-house, ..."
4. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1888)
"468) in use as a charnel-house, and which the latest ... Besides the charnel-house
above mentioned, there arc several large hollows iu the ground in this ..."
5. London by Charles Knight (1843)
"With this object he caused the charnel-house of Old St. Paul's, and the chapel
over it, to be demolished ; also a large cloister on the north of St. Paul's, ..."
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