Definitions for sepulcher

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sepulcher sep·ul·cher

Spelling: [sep-uh l-ker]

IPA: /ˈsɛp əl kər/

Sepulcher is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 402 anagrams from letters in sepulcher (ceehlprsu).

Definitions for sepulcher

noun

1. a tomb, grave, or burial place.
2. Also called Easter sepulcher. Ecclesiastical. a cavity in a mensa for containing relics of martyrs. a structure or a recess in some old churches in which the Eucharist was deposited with due ceremonies on Good Friday and taken out at Easter in commemoration of Christ's entombment and Resurrection.

verb (used with object)

1. to place in a sepulcher; bury.

Origin of sepulcher

1150-1200; Middle English sepulcre Old French Latin sepulcrum, equivalent to sepul- (variant stem of sepelīre to bury) + -crum noun suffix of place

Examples for sepulcher

At this sepulcher they were not only devout, but also merry.

His monument also, and sepulcher, are in the city of Gabatha.

This was at the sepulcher, very soon after the resurrection.

We might ask where the clothes came from that he wore after coming out of the sepulcher.

They came to see the sepulcher and were bringing spices in their hands.

They differ as to the number of persons in white seen at the sepulcher.

I knew that they felt as I felt: the laboratory was a sepulcher!

They differ as to the number of women who visited the sepulcher.

Then, covered by a mourning robe, they visited the Church of the sepulcher.

At the call of the Life-giver, he that had been dead came to the door of the sepulcher.