(n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies.
(n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument.
(n.) A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave.
(n.) A carriage specially adapted or used for conveying the dead to the grave.
(v. t.) To inclose in a hearse; to entomb.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than 200 people attended the East End-style funeral, complete with a horse-drawn hearse.
(2) Builders and plumbers want to cut corners by taking their final journey in a white van, while farmers fancy a send-off on a horse-drawn cart, tractor or even a specially manufactured Land Rover hearse and matching limousine.
(3) A pipe and drum band and mounted members of law enforcement in dress uniform advanced before the hearse.
(4) Unusual hearses – once a niche market – are setting a trend for send-offs with a difference as almost a quarter (23%) of Britons say they want to make their last journey in a personalised vehicle, according to new research from the UK’s biggest funeral director.
(5) Mark Gatiss , who co-created Sherlock with Moffat and wrote the third series' opening episode, The Empty Hearse, said: "We knew right from the start how we were going to do it.
(6) Rain fell softly on Eric Garner’s white casket as it was loaded into a hearse that would drive the 43-year-old father, who died after a New York police officer put him in a chokehold , to his final resting place following an emotional funeral on Wednesday night.
(7) A lone trumpeter played the Last Post as troops in dress uniform saluted then carried the wooden caskets to a row of hearses.
(8) Earlier in the day, Ali’s hearse had made a slow procession to the Cave Hill cemetery.
(9) The company, which has a network of more than 900 funeral homes across the UK, carried out a study into alternative hearses which are now used in almost 40,000 funerals every year.
(10) The hearses of the two men were parked at the front of the parking lot to be prayed on before they were driven out to lead a procession of mourners to the mosque.
(11) There are also alternatives for hire like a camper van hearse or a motorbike hearse.
(12) After Gately's coffin was carried out of the church, the surviving members of Boyzone stood behind the hearse in a silent group, huddled for a few minutes' reflection while local women and children showered them and the hearse with dozens of white roses.
(13) This time, the coffin will be transferred to a horse-drawn hearse, to lead the way to a service of compline, with a sermon from a Roman Catholic archbishop, Vincent Nicholls.
(14) In utter silence, the coffins were carefully loaded into hearses and taken away for identification at Hilversum.
(15) You don’t have to dig deep for a funeral – there are cheaper alternatives Read more You don’t have to transport the dead in a hearse.
(16) I imagine there will be one hearse for me and the rest will be bikes.
(17) Some sheltered from the rain in shop doorways, hours ahead of the moment the hearses carrying the bodies were to be driven through the town on their way to a hospital in Oxford.
(18) At 1.30pm, the coffin was carried out of St Laurence's on the shoulders of Gately's bandmates and placed in the hearse that would take him on to the Glasnevin cemetery.
(19) But if you choose to do it all yourself, with an eco-coffin, a basic cremation and an estate car or van instead of a hearse, it’s possible to get the cost down to a fraction of that – perhaps as little as £400.
(20) She had no idea when the body was buried and never saw hearses enter or leave the property.
Sepulchral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to burial, to the grave, or to monuments erected to the memory of the dead; as, a sepulchral stone; a sepulchral inscription.
(a.) Unnaturally low and grave; hollow in tone; -- said of sound, especially of the voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Holy Sepulchre is the most sacred monument of Christianity.
(2) Perhaps it was a sort of optical illusion of "the kingdom of heaven", the post-apocalypse New Jerusalem described in the Book of Revelation as well as an approximation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, according to travellers' accounts .
(3) The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced on Tuesday that the gift from Mica Ertegun, the widow of Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, would allow work to begin in earnest on the conservation project inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s old city.
(4) In 2003, after being awarded the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: Knight Commander with star, and serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, he was promoted by John Paul II, becoming only the third resident Scottish cardinal since the Reformation.
(5) It’s really horrible.” Such is the damage from a sepulchral few years at Bloomfield Road.
(6) Patriarch Theophilos III told Maariv: "If nothing changes we intend to announce within a few days, for the first time in centuries, that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed."
(7) Critics were less kind about Sepulchre , which she now says was rushed.
(8) Christian pilgrims en route to Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of Jesus's crucifixion, mingle with Muslims heading to the sacred Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, and Jews intent on praying at the revered Western Wall, the last surviving remnant of the Second Temple.
(9) Explaining the reasons for London’s sepulchral quiet, Netherton tells Flynne that a lot of apocalyptic dominoes fell, but it began, of course, with the climate: “People in the past, clueless as to how that worked, had fucked it all up, then not been able to get it together to do anything about it, even after they knew, and now it was too late.” This is not futurology as satire, any more than a long-range weather forecast is satire.
(10) He ensured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre remained a Christian place of worship.
(11) The moment you set eyes on them, you know that these beautiful people will die, that they are already dead and gone, and yet they live in the here and now of this moment, brief and bright as fireflies beneath the sepulchral gloom.
(12) is a much sunnier picture, and more purely comedic than its sepulchral predecessor,” he said.
(13) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre covers the assumed site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
(14) One of the most venerated sites in the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, buried and resurrected, is facing a financial crisis over an unpaid water bill in a row that could result in its closure.
(15) Jesus denounced his Pharisaic enemies as whited sepulchres, or shining tombs; and that is what the steam-cleaned marble frontage of St Paul's will become if the protesters are evicted to make room for empty pomp: a whited sepulchre, where morality and truth count for nothing against the convenience of the heritage industry.
(16) Maurice, meanwhile, is terrified of mouldering in respectable suburbia, dragging some poor virgin into the sepulchre with him.
(17) Today's saccharine sanctimony will try to whiten the sepulchre of yet another Pope whose obscurantist faith has caused pointless suffering; it is no defence that he was only obeying higher orders.
(18) In the sepulchral hush, you can hear the cheers from over on Centre.
(19) It speaks quite meaningfully to what it might mean to perform this play in an election year.” Intriguingly, King John will also be taken to candlelit churches which have strong ties to that time – Temple church in London , where several of the play’s key characters are buried, and the Holy Sepulchre in Northampton , a church frequently visited by King John and his court.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christians pray at Christ’s tomb as experts begin renovation in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre.