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单词 sepulchre
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Definition of sepulchre in English:

sepulchre

(US sepulcher)
noun ˈsɛp(ə)lkəˈsɛpəlkər
  • A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

    岩穴墓;石墓

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see.
    • Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’.
    • All around, she could feel the shapes of sepulchres and headstones.
    • The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre.
    • Hardening my heart with all the memories of the times mother and I visited the sepulcher where father's ashes lay in the soil, I put another foot forward.
    • And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock.
    • The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James.
    • The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre.
    • And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
    • The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
    • For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres.
    • And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
    • He sees the stone rolled away from the grave of Lazarus and three men approach the sepulchre where the man's body lies.
    • Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him.
    • In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below.
    • In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’.
    • In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
    • He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered.
    • His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
    • So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
    Synonyms
    tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid
    grave
    Archaeology mastaba
    rare undercroft
verb ˈsɛp(ə)lkəˈsɛpəlkər
[with object]literary
  • 1Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre.

    〈主诗/文〉埋葬;掩埋

    tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries

    一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。

    Synonyms
    bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn
    1. 1.1 Serve as a burial place for.
      作为…的墓地,埋葬
      when ocean shrouds and sepulchres our dead

      当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum 'burial place', from sepelire 'bury'.

Definition of sepulcher in US English:

sepulcher

(British sepulchre)
nounˈsepəlkərˈsɛpəlkər
  • A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

    岩穴墓;石墓

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All around, she could feel the shapes of sepulchres and headstones.
    • The picture provides this legend with monumentality since it turns it into an act of mourning performed on a sepulchre.
    • He sees the stone rolled away from the grave of Lazarus and three men approach the sepulchre where the man's body lies.
    • For instance, armour and other trophies were often displayed above sepulchres.
    • Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see.
    • In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below.
    • And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
    • Hardening my heart with all the memories of the times mother and I visited the sepulcher where father's ashes lay in the soil, I put another foot forward.
    • Deep inside, St. Francis' bones are locked away in a sepulcher, the immense weight of the Basilica - a place he would have hated - weighing down on top of him.
    • In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
    • Both deny charges of ‘violating a sepulchre without the authority of the relatives or executors of said unknown person’.
    • The public had been kept clear of the tomb, and it is unclear what level of access there had been to the king's remains before they were replaced in a new sepulchre.
    • In contrast, Moses arranged for his own discreet burial so that ‘no man knoweth of his sepulcher unto this day’.
    • So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
    • And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
    • The place seemed as an open tomb, an unsealed sepulcher, a deathly resting place, quietly awaiting corpses to crowd its halls and fulfill its purpose.
    • And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre hewn from the rock.
    • His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers.
    • The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James.
    • He got to a sepulcher where four Satanists were gathered.
    Synonyms
    tomb, vault, burial place, burial chamber, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, sarcophagus, pyramid
verbˈsepəlkərˈsɛpəlkər
[with object]literary
  • 1Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulcher.

    〈主诗/文〉埋葬;掩埋

    tomes are soon out of print and sepulchered in the dust of libraries

    一卷卷的书印出来后被埋在图书馆的灰尘之中。

    Synonyms
    bury, lay to rest, consign to the grave, entomb, inurn
    1. 1.1 Serve as a burial place for.
      作为…的墓地,埋葬
      when ocean shrouds and sepulchers our dead

      当大洋裹起并埋葬我们的死者的时候。

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin sepulcrum ‘burial place’, from sepelire ‘bury’.

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