Middle English Dictionary Entry
sepultūr(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sepultūr(e n. Also sepultr(e. |
| Etymology | L sepultūra & OF sepouture, sepulture; sense 2. results from confusion with ME sepulcre n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Burying, burial; the act or rite of burial; also fig.
Associated quotations
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)125/302 : For þe offyce of hyre sepulture Was al an heuene gyse.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Mac.9.15 : The Jewis, whom he said hym self to hauynge neither sothely worthi of sepulture, bot to betakeinge to foulis and wijld beestis.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.822 : Dronkenesse..is the horrible sepulture [vr. sepulcre] of mannes resoun.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)3.2015 : With hors sche scholde be todrawe, Til houndes hadde hire bones gnawe Withouten eny sepulture.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)334a/b : Tibia..was som tyme an instrument of deole & sorwe þat men vsede in office and sepultures of dede men.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.2394 : He myȝt þer-of haue no grace Lenger tyme..Þan for leyser of þe sepulture Of worþi knyȝtes.
- a1422 Gild St.Geo.Nrw.(Rwl D.913)451 : Qwan ony broþer or suster deye, the aldirman schal send his bedel to ȝif warnyng to alle bretheren and sustren of þe day of Sepulture.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.213 : Many men ben disseyved in founding of chauntries, in coostli sepulcris, and in solempne sepulturis.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2553 : My body mote ye se..in the haven of Athenes fletynge, Withoute sepulture and buryinge.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)453 : Sepulture, or beryynge: Sepultura.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)4340 : All was buskede in blake, birdes and othire, That schewede at the sepulture, with sylande teris.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)1610 : For luste of hire wommen & plesaunce..þei receyuen eeke prouocatyues Tengendre hem luste..And suche þing causiþ hastyf sepulture.
- (1453-4) Lin.DDoc.64/18 : The residew of alle my goodes..after my sepulture honestly doon..I giff..to Iohn Archier.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)208/30 : In þe tent day aftir his sepulture..þe kyng sent certeyn dukes and erles to delue up þe body.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.91 : The deuourenge of bestes is a sepulture [Trev.: burienge; L Sepultura] to theyme, and after that they do take theire boones to sepulture or beryenge.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton:EETS)72/450 (f.58ra) : Was ther not sepulture ynough for vs in Egypt but that we must now deye in wyldernesse?
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)f.73rb : Wher is now thy hope and reward for whiche thou gauest thy almesses and madest sepultures?
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.216 : Iesu..hadde worchipful and costful sepulture..wherby..he ȝaf men example to kepyn worchypful maner of beryynge.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.179 : Þei þat ȝeuyn or takyn onyþing be wey of custom..for sepulturis, for dirigeis, for crisme..he doth symonye.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)469 : Þei coueten confessions to kachen some hire, And sepultures also some wayten to cacchen.
2.
(a) A sepulcher, tomb; a burial place, grave; also fig.; ben turned to sepultures, to become burial places; (b) an Easter sepulcher [cp. sepulcre n.1.(c)]; ~ cerge, ~ cloth, =sepulcre cerge, sepulcre cloth.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.369 : Þe place of pasture were i-torned to buriels and sepultures [L in sepulcra].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.2349 : Out of his sepulture Ther sprong..Of floures such a wonder syhte.
- a1400 Cursor (Frf 14)25614 : Þat ilk time þer was þou wondin, laide in sepulture [Göt: sepulcre] & noȝt fondin.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.6910 : Þe Grekis dide make a sepulture Coriously of metal and of stoon.
- c1425 Chaucer CT.WB.(Petw 7)D.498 : All nys his tombe not so curious As was þe sepulture [Heng: sepulcre] of hym darius which þat appelles wrouȝt subtily.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)253 : There was nihe that place of the crosse..a newe sepulture wher ynne no body was buried bifore.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.15 Tokens (Hrl 2255)60 : Ded boonys that day shal aryse, And grisly stonde on ther sepulture.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)4.1501 : Liche to these fayre riche sepultures Whiche be-tokene in her representyng That there is beryed duke or ellis kyng.
- (1451) Lin.DDoc.48/1 : I wil..that my said chauntre prests Araye the autarus & ouere sepultures with blak auterclothis &..finde ij serges burny[n]g opon ouere sepulturs.
- c1460 Lydg.Test.(Hrl 2255)p.236 : With Maria callyd Mawdeleyne..Fro slouthe and slombre mysilf I shal restreyne, To seke Jhesu at his sepulture.
- (1473-4) Acc.St.Edm.Sarum14 : Item, y receyvid of the price of ij marble stones sold for the sepultures of John Nichol and Andrew Brent xxvj s. viij d.
- (1475) RParl.6.143b : The said Prioury..to suffre booth Horses and Cartes dayly to goo uppon the sepultures of Cristen people.
- c1475(c1447) Epitaph Duke Glo.(Hrl 2251)16 : Syth thy wille, lord, may nat be geynseyd, Have mercy on hym buryed in this sepulture.
- a1500 Let.Alex.(Wor F.172)550 : Vpon this valley bien piramudes ordeigned, that is to say, sepultures, of tymber made.
- a1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)106/99 : Mankinde..was brought to þe sepulture [vr. sepulcre] of hell.
- c1500(1463) Ashby Pris.(Trin-C R.3.19)344 : Pryson properly ys a sepulture Of lyuyng men.
b
- (1415) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)45 : Þe tapers þat leven þer of forto brenne be fore þe sepultre from Good Friday in to Ester day.
- (1466) in Cox Churches Derb.4.86 : One veyle for lente And one Sepultr clothe, with one crisonne cloth wroght with ye nylde to henge att the hoele of ye saide sepultr clothe.
- (1466) in Cox Churches Derb.4.87 : Another sepultr serge in the kepying of Roberte Weste..And lykewyse of oder sepultr serges sustened of charite by oder of the parishe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500(1439) Lydg.Sts.AA (Lnsd 699)2266 : [Alban]…aftir whan he wer ded The place assygned, bi sort or aventur, Fro the body whan partid is the hed, The coors ther shuld have his sepultur…the body with the hed Ioyned togidre, in a gret chest of led.
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