Sepulcher

{ 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.

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

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

{ Sep"ul*cher, Sep"ul*chre } (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sepulchered (?) or Sepulchred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Sepulchering (?) or Sepulchring (?).] To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.

And so sepulchered in such pomp dost lie
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.