What does sepulchre mean?
Sepulchre means A burial chamber..
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/ˈsɛpəlkə/ · noun
A burial chamber..
Near-synonym: crypt
By Mahomet, my Kinſmans ſepulcher, And by the holy Alcaron I ſweare, […]
He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
Woe vnto you Scribes and Phariſees, hypocrites, for yee are like vnto whited ſepulchꝛes, which indeed appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and of all vncleanneſſe.
[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
Nor was it the human form alone which we had placed in this eternal sepulchre, whose obsequies we now celebrated.
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride, In her sepulchre there by the sea— In her tomb by the sounding sea.
The vast tackles have now done their duty. The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.
Use sepulchre when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sepulchre means A burial chamber..
Common synonyms include tomb, vault, crypt, sepulcher.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Near-synonym: crypt
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