Sepulcher /(?)/

Sep·ul·cher

Sepulcher

n.
  1. 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.
    The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher.
    — John xx. 1.

Phrases & Compounds

A whited sepulcher
Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27. — Matt. xxiii. 27.

Sepulcher

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Sepulchered; p. pr. & vb. n. Sepulchering

  1. 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.