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sepulchral |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sepulchral \Se*pul"chral\, a. [L. sepulcralis: cf F. s['e]pulcral.] 1. 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. 2. Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice. This exaggerated dulling of the voice . . . giving what is commonly called a sepulchral tone. --H. Sweet. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sepulchral adj 1: of or relating to a sepulchre; "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches" 2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: {charnel}, {ghastly}] 3: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: {funereal}]
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