Definitions for sepulture

sepulture sep·ul·ture

Spelling: [sep-uh l-cher]
IPA: /ˈsɛp əl tʃər/

Sepulture is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in sepulture (eelprstuu).

Definitions for sepulture

noun

  1. the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
  2. sepulcher; tomb.

Origin of sepulture

1250-1300; Middle English Old French Latin sepultūra, equivalent to sepult(us) (past participle of sepelīre to bury) + -ūra -ure

Examples for sepulture

This subterranean mode of sepulture is undoubtedly of Egyptian origin.

sepulture was generally therefore forbidden; but in consequence of Deut.

She was put into a vault which this Turk had for the sepulture of his family.

All the meed of the tomb, all the solace of sepulture, I give freely.

Cutha was a favourite place of sepulture with the Babylonians.

This was a very ancient structure, and probably a place of sepulture.

Thus we were able to arrive at the system of sepulture employed by this unknown race.

The place is commonly used for tombs and places of sepulture for the dead.

They were evidently excavated for worship, not for sepulture.

The tumulus may be considered as the most simple and the most ancient form of sepulture.

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