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}]