Synonyms for sepulture
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sep-uh l-cher |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛp əl tʃər |
Top 10 synonyms for sepulture Other synonyms for the word sepulture
Définition of sepulture
Origin :- "burial, interment," late 13c., from Old French sepulture, sepoutre "tomb, coffin" (12c.), from Latin sepultura "burial, funeral obsequies," from sepult-, past participle stem of sepelire "to bury" (see sepulcher).
- noun grave
- She was put into a vault which this Turk had for the sepulture of his family.
- Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
- Cutha was a favourite place of sepulture with the Babylonians.
- Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
- All the meed of the tomb, all the solace of sepulture, I give freely.
- Extract from : « The Aeneid of Virgil » by Virgil
- Sepulture was generally therefore forbidden; but in consequence of Deut.
- Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage
- This subterranean mode of sepulture is undoubtedly of Egyptian origin.
- Extract from : « Museum of Antiquity » by L. W. Yaggy
- The tumulus may be considered as the most simple and the most ancient form of sepulture.
- Extract from : « Museum of Antiquity » by L. W. Yaggy
- The place is commonly used for tombs and places of sepulture for the dead.
- Extract from : « Richard I » by Jacob Abbott
- Thus we were able to arrive at the system of sepulture employed by this unknown race.
- Extract from : « Southern Arabia » by Theodore Bent
- This was a very ancient structure, and probably a place of sepulture.
- Extract from : « Early Travels in Palestine » by Arculf et al.
- They were evidently excavated for worship, not for sepulture.
- Extract from : « The Catacombs of Rome » by William Henry Withrow
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