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sepulture

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sepulture \Sep"ul*ture\, n. [F. s['e]pulture, L. sepultura, fr.
   sepelire, sepultum, to bury.]
   1. The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in
      the grave; burial; interment.

            Where we may royal sepulture prepare. --Dryden.

   2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial.

            Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's
            reason.                               --Chaucer.

Source : WordNet®

sepulture
     n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: {burial}, {entombment},
           {inhumation}, {interment}]
     2: a chamber that is used as a grave [syn: {burial chamber}, {sepulcher},
         {sepulchre}]
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