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Definition of Sepulchre
1. Noun. A chamber that is used as a grave.
Generic synonyms: Chamber, Grave, Tomb
Specialized synonyms: Crypt, Mausoleum, Monument, Repository, Burial Vault, Vault
Specialized synonyms: Holy Sepulcher, Holy Sepulchre
Derivative terms: Sepulchral, Sepulchral
Definition of Sepulchre
1. Noun. A burial chamber. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To place in a sepulchre. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sepulchre
1. [v -CHRED, -CHRING, -CHRES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepulchre
Literary usage of Sepulchre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"To the right of the Sacred Tomb in the Basilica of the Holy sepulchre is the ...
Holy sepulchre, KNIGHTS OF THE.—Neither the name of a founder nor a date of ..."
2. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1870)
"When one enters the Church of the Holy sepulchre, the sepulchre itself is the
first thing he desires to see, and really is almost the first thing he does ..."
3. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1870)
"When one enters the Church of the Holy sepulchre, the sepulchre itself is the
first thing he desires to see, and really is almost the first thing he does ..."
4. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"However, his tomb is in u good state of preservation. When one enters the Church
of the Holy sepulchre, the sepulchre itself is the first thing he ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"The four Gospels, which describe so minutely the circumstances of the crucifixion
and resurrection, mention the sepulchre only in general terms ..."
6. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"IN the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,
came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. ..."
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