sepulchre
sepulchre
Definition
sep·ul·chre (sep′əl kər)
noun, transitive verb -·chred, -·chring
Brit. sepulcher
sepulchre
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- king: He was buried in the sepulcher of the kings, greatly lamented by the people ( 2 Kings 15:38; 2 Chr.
- mortality: They are entombed in the urns and sepulchers of mortality!
- prophet: Ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
- crime: Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime, Rise and deride this sepulcher of crime.
Converse of object
- white: Yarm is the worst sort of town: a whited sepulcher.
- build: Ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
- find: They found the sepulcher empty, but saw the " vision of angels " ( Matt.
- make: The men then made a sepulcher for Him In sight of me.
- deride: Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime, Rise and deride this sepulcher of crime.
- seal: They supposedly went to Pilate to get him to seal the sepulcher so that he could not escape and recover.
Adjective modifier
- open: Earth was an open sepulcher; and each man hated his God.
- empty: For beside their real tombs, many have found honorary and empty sepulchers.
- holy: The holy sepulcher in Jerusalem was conveniently ' discovered ' just three years later, in 328.
- real: And Severus found his real sepulcher in Rome, but his empty grave in Gallia.
Noun used with modifier
- easter: Rather too taken care of was one of Suffolk's largest Easter sepulchers, up in the chancel.
sepulchre Quotes
So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
So Moses the servant of the L died there in the land of Moab but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
The first day of the weekcometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
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