Dictionary entry

Sepulture

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sep″ul‐ture (?), n. [F. sépulture, 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.