Definition of "sepulcher" []

• A burial vault. (noun)
• A receptacle for sacred relics, especially in an altar. (noun)
• To place into a sepulcher; inter. (verb-transitive)

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• "Called the Chamber of Paladine, the sepulcher was a large rectangular room, built far below the ground where the destruction of the Tower did not affect it."
• "Often this is in a little detached garden, containing a small stone building (where there is no rock), resembling a house, which is called the sepulcher of the family -- it has neither door nor window."
• "Her watchfulness is untiring; she who guarded the sepulcher was the first to approach it, and the last to depart from its awful yet sublime scene."