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sepulchral

[suh-puhl-kruhl]

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or serving as a tomb.

of or pertaining to burial.

proper to or suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal.

hollow and deep: sepulchral tones.

Origin:
1605–15; < Latin sepulcrālis. See sepulcher, -al¹

Related forms

se·pul·chral·ly, adverb

trans·se·pul·chral, adjective

un·se·pul·chral, adjective

un·se·pul·chral·ly, adverb

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The dark water appeared sepulchral and mute, becoming opaque and swollen with snowmelt.

Full of luminous color, they are sepulchral in tone.

Even in museums its installation tends to be hushed, sepulchral.

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sepulchral (sɪˈpʌlkrəl)

—*adj*
1.	suggestive of a tomb; gloomy
2.	of or relating to a sepulchre

se'pulchrally

—*adv*

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"I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was "breaking the Lord's fourth commandment," and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it. The country is full of this superstition, so that when one enters a village, the church, not only really but from association, is the ugliest looking building in it, because it is the one in which human nature stoops the lowest and is most disgraced. Certainly, such temples as these shall ere long cease to deform the landscape. There are few things more disheartening and disgusting than when you are walking the streets of a strange village on the Sabbath, to hear a preacher shouting like a boatswain in a gale of wind, and thus harshly profaning the quiet atmosphere of the day. You fancy him to have taken off his coat, as when men are about to do hot and dirty work."

-Henry David Thoreau

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