mortician

[ mawr-tish-uhn ]
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Origin of mortician

1
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; mort(uary) + -ician

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How to use mortician in a sentence

  • Horace had been playing poker with a mortician, who had put the car up as collateral.

  • "Father Gary" didn't grow up with a mercurial mortician who embalmed his mother, either.

    What's Real in The Rite | Seth Colter Walls | January 31, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Though Father Gary did spend a summer working with a mortician.

    What's Real in The Rite | Seth Colter Walls | January 31, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • I remember one who was studying to become a mortician and he got several very expensive books on the subject.

  • The really smart way nowadays of bidding good-bye to the world is to go to the establishment of a "mortician."

    Turns about Town | Robert Cortes Holliday
  • Here I discovered that to the mind of the mortician towels belong to the Dark Ages.

    Turns about Town | Robert Cortes Holliday
  • Here was an expert and a graduate mortician, with diploma to prove it; also one gifted of the pen.

    Sundry Accounts | Irvin S. Cobb
  • Marry Miss Dutton, and you'll be a scarecrow within a year, and require the services of the mortician within two!

    Bunch Grass | Horace Annesley Vachell

British Dictionary definitions for mortician

mortician

/ (mɔːˈtɪʃən) /


noun
  1. mainly US another word for undertaker

Origin of mortician

1
C19: from mortuary + -ician, as in physician

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