Dictionary entry

Sepulcher

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Sep″ul‐cher, Sep″ul‐chre } (?), n. [OE. sepulcre, OF. sepulcre, F. sépulcre, fr. L. sepulcrum, sepulchrum, fr. sepelire to bury.] The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.

The stony entrance of this sepulcher. Shak.

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulcher. John xx. 1.

A whited sepulcher. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii. 27.