sepulchre: [12] Sepulchre comes ultimately from Latin sepelīre ‘bury, inter’. From its past participle sepultus was derived the noun sepulcrum ‘burying place, tomb’, which passed into English via Old French sepulcre. There is no etymological justification for the ch spelling.
sepulchre (n.)
also sepulcher, c. 1200, "tomb, burial place," especially the cave where Jesus was buried outside Jerusalem (Holy Sepulcher or Saint Sepulcher), from Old French sepulcre "tomb; the Holy Sepulchre" (11c.), from Latin sepulcrum "grave, tomb, place where a corpse is buried," from root of sepelire "to bury, embalm," originally "to perform rituals on a corpse," from PIE *sep-el-yo-, suffixed form of root *sep- (2) "to handle (skillfully), to hold (reverently);" cognates: Sanskrit saparyati "honors." No reason for the -ch- spelling, which dates to 13c. Whited sepulchre "hypocrite" is from Matt. xxiii.27.
实用例句
1. He thought himself in a sepulchre.
他以为自己是躺在一个坟墓里.
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2. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
2看见石头已经从坟墓辊开了.
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3. Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
耶5:16他们的箭袋、是敞开的坟墓 、 他们都是勇士.
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4. Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre.
将是那巨大陵墓的穹顶.
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5. So they went, and made the sepulchre sure , sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
