n. & v. (US sepulcher)
n. a tomb esp. cut in rock or built of stone or brick, a burial vault or cave.
v.tr. 1 lay in a sepulchre. 2 serve as a sepulchre for. the Holy Sepulchre the tomb in which Christ was laid. whited sepulchre a hypocrite (with ref. to Matt. 23:27).
[ ME f. OF f. L sepulc(h)rum f. sepelire sepult- bury ]