'Sepulture' definitions:

Definition of 'sepulture'

(from WordNet)
noun
The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture]
noun
A chamber that is used as a grave [syn: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture]

Definition of 'Sepulture'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Where we may royal sepulture prepare. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A sepulcher; a grave; a place of burial. [1913 Webster]
  • Drunkeness that is the horrible sepulture of man's reason. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]