sepulchre

noun

1. 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.”

2. (historical)A recess in some early churches in which the reserved sacrament, etc. was kept from Good Friday till Easter.

verb

1. (transitive)To place in a sepulchre.

   “And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”

   “Not one of the ordinary motives—the vanity or the selfishness which people call by the name of love—actuated her through this long trial; she had everything to fear, and nothing to expect. What creation of the poet ever exceeded this terrible reality of love sepulchred in this living tomb?”