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Meanings of sepulture in English

Portuguese
inumação
Catalan
sepeli
Spanish
entierro
Wikidata

The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave.

        inumação
        Portuguese
        sepulcro
        Catalan
        sepultura

        A chamber that is used as a grave.

              sepulcro
              Usage of sepulture in English
              1
              Then the box was lifted and the work of sepulture went on.
              Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
              2
              The place of his sepulture, however, is still known, and pointed out.
              Life of George Washington — Volume 01
              3
              His body was brought for sepulture to Tyringham church, near Newport Pagnel.
              The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
              4
              Euripides had his tomb in Africa, but his sepulture in Macedonia.
              Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
              5
              The body-snatcher was to be punished by death and the lack of sepulture.
              The Danish History, Books I-IX
              6
              Some weep, some laugh, and Thursday, the day of sepulture, comes.
              Purgatory: Doctrinal, Historical, and Poetical
              7
              The next day Cherokee Sal had such rude sepulture as Roaring Camp afforded.
              Selected Stories of Bret Harte
              8
              The monastery was always the place of sepulture for the greatest lords and kings.
              Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
              9
              The place of sepulture was revealed thrice to a blind pauper in a dream.
              Italian Journeys
              10
              This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of sepulture.
              Les Misérables
              11
              No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture.
              Les Misérables
              12
              The slopes of Gallipoli, the sands of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Judasa afford them sepulture.
              Ulster's Stand For Union
              13
              They performed the sad rights of sepulture as they might, upon the rocky ground.
              The First White Man of the West / Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'...
              14
              And all the charges of sepulture too shall be mine.
              Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9
              15
              From her place of sepulture a sweet smell long continued to pervade the neighbourhood.
              The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
              16
              Like the Pharaohs of whom Bossuet speaks, Napoleon was not to enjoy his sepulture.
              The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
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              Translations for sepulture
              Spanish
              entierro
              Sepulture through the time
              Sepulture across language varieties
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