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mortuary
[ mawr-choo-er-ee ]
noun
plural mortuaries.
- a customary gift formerly claimed by and due to the incumbent of a parish in England from the estate of a deceased parishioner.
adjective
- of or relating to the burial of the dead.
- pertaining to or connected with death.
mortuary
/ ˈɔːʃʊəɪ /
noun
- Also calledmorgue a building where dead bodies are kept before cremation or burial
adjective
- of or relating to death or burial
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ·ǰt·y adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mortuary1
C14 (as n, a funeral gift to a parish priest): via Medieval Latin ǰٳܳ (n) from Latin ǰٳܲ of the dead
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Bodies covered in white sheets were also taken to the hospital's mortuary.
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"Is this the truce they are talking about?" he told Reuters news agency as he stood beside her body at a mortuary.
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They began by looking at where a person had been staying, the beach they were recovered from and where they were in the mortuary.
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The scale of Wendy's injuries meant they were not able to visit the mortuary to say goodbye.
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Savile's work as an entertainer with the BBC and his charitable efforts gave him unsupervised entry to sensitive areas like hospital wards, schools and mortuaries, where he abused vulnerable people.
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