MORTUARY
\mˈɔːtjuːəɹˌi], \mˈɔːtjuːəɹˌi], \m_ˈɔː_t_j_uː_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of MORTUARY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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A burial place; a place for the dead.
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A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
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Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
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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.
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A burial place; a place for the dead.
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A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
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Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Belonging to the burial of the dead.
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A burial-place: a gift claimed by the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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