Mortuary Definition

môrcho͝o-ĕrē
mortuaries
noun
mortuaries
A place where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation, as a morgue or funeral home.
Webster's New World

A morgue.

Wiktionary

(historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
Of or having to do with the burial of the dead.
Webster's New World
Of or connected with death.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Mortuary

Noun

Singular:
mortuary
Plural:
mortuaries

Origin of Mortuary

  • Middle English mortuarie gift to a parish priest from the estate of the deceased, funeral service from Anglo-Norman from Latin mortuārium receptacle for dead things neuter of mortuārius of the dead from mortuus dead past participle of morī to die mer- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner"), from Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary"), neuter form of mortuārius (“of or pertaining to the dead"), from Latin mortuus, perfect passive participle of morior (“I die").

    From Wiktionary

Mortuary Sentence Examples

  • Andrea, where he had painted the altar-piece of the mortuary chapel.

  • Her gaze fell to the envelope from South Peachtree Mortuary Services.

  • Apparently most of the fighting was finished by the fifth year of his reign; in his mortuary temple at Thebes he set up a stela of that date recording a great victory over the Libyan immigrants and invaders, which rendered the much harried land of Egypt safe.

  • Later, Dean heard the movement of the mortuary men coming for Edith—the hushed conversation and the bumping and thumping as the lifeless shell of this troubled woman was bagged and forever removed from Bird Song.

  • Billie—it was official now, identified or guessed at by the weeping Ida Wasserman, accompanied to the mortuary by Andy Sackler, who drew the short straw.

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