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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sepulcher \Sep"ul*cher\, Sepulchre \Sep"ul*chre\, n. [OE.
sepulcre, OF sepulcre, F. s['e]pulcre, 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.
The stony entrance of this sepulcher. --Shak.
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early,
when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher. --John xx 1.
{A whited sepulcher}. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly
but unclean or vile within. See --Matt. xxiii. 27.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sepulcher \Sep"ul*cher\, Sepulchre \Sep"ul*chre\, v. t. [imp. &
p. p. {Sepulchered}or {Sepulchred}; p. pr & vb n.
{Sepulchering}or {Sepulchring}.]
To bury; to inter; to entomb; as obscurely sepulchered.
And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie That kings for
such a tomb would wish to die. --Milton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sepulcher
n : a chamber that is used as a grave [syn: {burial chamber}, {sepulchre},
{sepulture}]
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