sepulture Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
    burial; interment; inhumation; entombment.
  2. noun a chamber that is used as a grave
    sepulchre; sepulcher; burial chamber.

WordNet

Sep"ul*ture noun
Etymology
F. sépulture, L. sepultura, fr. sepelire, sepultum, to bury.
Definitions
  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 the horrible sepulture of man's reason. Chaucer.

Webster 1913