sep|ul|cher

sep|ul|cher
sep|ul|cher «SEHP uhl kuhr», noun, verb.
–n.
1. a place for putting the bodies of persons who have died; tomb; grave.
2. a structure or recess in old churches in which sacred relics were deposited on the Thursday or Friday before Easter to be taken out at Easter.
–v.t.
to bury (a dead body) in a sepulcher.
╂[< Old French sepulcre, learned borrowing from Latin sepulcrum < sepelīre to bury]

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