sepulture : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sepulture	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sepulture
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sepulture n the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture] a chamber that is used as a grave Synonym(s): burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sepulture \Sep"ulture\, n. [F. s[82]pulture, L. sepultura, fr. sepelire, sepultum, to bury.] 1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment. Where we may royal sepulture* prepare. --Dryden. 2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's reason. --Chaucer.