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Definition of Sepulchral
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a sepulchre. "Sepulchral monuments in churches"
2. Adjective. Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead. "The sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
3. Adjective. Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial. "Hollow sepulchral tones"
Definition of Sepulchral
1. a. Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
Definition of Sepulchral
1. Adjective. Suggestive of a grave ¹
2. Adjective. Hollow and deep. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sepulchral
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepulchral
Literary usage of Sepulchral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1877)
"This sepulchral slab was four feet long by two and a half feet wide.1 It was ...
An ancient sepulchral slab, with an incised cross approximating this shape, ..."
2. Pre-Historic Races of the United States of America by John Wells Foster (1874)
"47 = sepulchral urn from Laporte, Indiana.; sepulchral urns.—I give three
representations of sepulchral urns, taken from the mounds at Laporte, ..."
3. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"We have now seen the existence of something veiy like a labyrinth in the heart
of an Etruscan sepulchral tumulus, and have thus established, by analogy, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... the lines of graves are those of the family sepulchral chambers, ... on the
other hand, the sepulchral recess as a rule entered the rock like an oven at ..."
5. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1846)
"Observations on Incised sepulchral Slabs, with Descriptions of two remarkable
examples, representing Knights in the cross-legged attitude, which exist at ..."
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