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Mortuary   /mˈɔrtʃuˌɛri/   Listen
noun
Mortuary  n.  (pl. mortuaries)  
1.
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
2.
A burial place; a place for the dead.
3.
A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
4.
A funeral home.


adjective
Mortuary  adj.  Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
Mortuary urn, an urn for holding the ashes of a dead person after cremation.





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"Mortuary" Quotes from Famous Books



... the quadrangle in front of the chapel northwards to the entrance to the vaults, the sisters of the community chanting the psalm Miserere. It opened up at the mortuary door, and the coffin was borne into the vault, and placed in the recess assigned to it beside the coffin of his first wife, and under those of his two children. A short service here took place, the Benedictus was sung, ...
— Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 • Robert Ornsby
... quietly surveying the stranger, uttered a sardonic bray, and ambled away to the little cemetery on the hill, whose tangled chapparal effectually prevented all pursuit by her skilled antagonist. From that day she forsook the camp, and spent her Sabbaths in mortuary reflections among the pine head-boards and cold ...
— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte
... looked, but for that very reason, perhaps, we have the clearest sense of his greatness. Everywhere we beheld the evidences of his ingenious but lugubrious fancy, which everywhere tended to a monumental and mortuary effect. A sort of vestibule first received us, and beyond this dripped and glimmered the garden. The walls of the vestibule were covered with inscriptions setting forth the sentiments of the philosophy and piety of all ages concerning life and death; we began ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. • Various
... These mortuary emblems furnished me with congenial food for reflection. I used to lie in the long grass, and speculate on the advantages and ...
— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... led Juve towards one of the rooms, where the corpse of Captain Brocq was: it had been laid down on the floor. Pious hands had lighted a mortuary candle, and, in view of the position held by the dead man, two of the police staff were keeping watch and ward until someone came to claim the ...
— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre


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