mortuary
adjEtymology
From Middle English mortuary, 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 (“to die”).
- derived from mortuus
- derived from mortuārium
- derived from mortuarie
- inherited from mortuary
Definitions
Of or relating to death or a funeral
Of or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
- The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.
A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation
A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.
- It was anciently usual to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it came to be buried
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of…
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for mortuary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA