sepulchral mounds

pl. Anthrop.: A generic name for the graves and funeral monuments of early peoples and some races of low culture at the present day. [CAIRN, BARROW, TUMULUS.] *sě-pul-chral-ize, v . t . [Eng. sepulchral ; -ize .] To render sepulchral or solemn. sěp-ŭl-cher, sěp-ŭl-chre (chre as ker), subst. [Fr. sépulcre , from Lat. sepulcrum , sepulchrum, from sepultus , pa. par. of sepelio =to bury; Sp. & Port. sepulcro ; Ital. sepolcro .] I. Ord . Lang .: A tomb, a grave, a burial vault. II. Eccles .: A small temporary altar, on which the second Host consecrated in the Ma IMG:content-1227.jpg:[graphic] on Maunday Thursday is reserved for the Mi a Sicca on Good Friday. In many of the English pre-Reformation churches there was a rece in the north wall for this purpose. *sepulcher-table, s. A mural tablet. sěp-ul-cher, v. t. [SEPULCHER, 8.] Το inter, to bury, to entomb. Sepulcher. "When Ocean shrouds and sepulchers our dead." Byron: Corsair, i. 1.