Definition of mortuary in English:

mortuary

nounPlural mortuaries ˈmɔːtjʊəriˈmɔːtʃʊriˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri

A room or building in which dead bodies are kept, for hygienic storage or for examination, until burial or cremation.
Example sentencesExamples
- He also introduced a rickshaw service, which takes unclaimed bodies from the government mortuary for a proper burial.
- Her son said that when undertakers arrived to remove her body from the hospital mortuary two days later, the rings were missing from her fingers.
- The bodies keep coming to this mortuary in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
- They were reinterred several hours later after a Home Office pathologist, in the presence of an independent pathologist, carried out a new post-mortem examination at a local mortuary.
- The doctors were either too busy or unavailable to visit the mortuary to review the body after death.
- Then came the appalling task of formally identifying their daughter's body in the mortuary at the Bristol hospital.
- Those who work at the Department of Defense's only mortuary in the continental United States see firsthand a grim reality of war.
- The controversy over the bodies in the mortuary continues, but this time at national level.
- She lay dead in the mortuary of the hospital for two weeks before her family was notified.
- Principals and teachers from the affected schools arrived at the scene and waited with parents at the hospital and at the mortuary for the dead to be identified.
- Following her death, the trust was also criticised for the difficulty the family had in seeing her body in the mortuary, which was said to be off-limits at the weekend.
- He also co-owns a chain of mortuaries, which kept him occupied in down years.
- But when the families went to pick up the bodies from the hospital mortuary, they were presented with a bill.
- After his retirement he continued with coroner's post-mortem examinations at the municipal mortuary.
- For extra payment, undertakers began to offer wealthier people new facilities without the taint of the public mortuary to store their dead away from home.
- Police sealed off the area while scenes of crime officers photographed the incident site and carried out a forensic examination before the body was removed to the mortuary at York District Hospital.
- His widow yesterday visited the mortuary where his body lay, as the independent inquiry began into his death.
- After searching frantically in the local hospitals he eventually found his wife's body in a mortuary.
- Meanwhile, he has appealed to churches, community leaders and other stakeholders to help the local authorities address the issue of unclaimed bodies in hospital mortuaries.
- The District Medical Officer viewed and ordered the body to be removed to the mortuary, pending an autopsy.
- Though the disclosure was controversial, there is no doubt that this was the scoop of the year, and the picture of the bodies in the mortuary were sought by many newspapers round the world.
- The man's brain had been kept in a standard, sealed container in the autopsy room in the hospital mortuary.
- The funeral home and mortuary had been in our family for decades.
- We're not allowed to film coffins being offloaded at Dover Air Force Base, where the national mortuary is.
- Their bodies were taken to the Grahamstown mortuary where postmortem examinations will be held today.
- The body was viewed by the district medical officer, who ordered its removal to San Fernando mortuary.
Synonyms
morgue, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home
British chapel of rest
archaic charnel house, dead house, lych-house

adjective ˈmɔːtjʊəriˈmɔːtʃʊriˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri

Relating to burial or tombs.
mortuary rituals
a mortuary temple
Example sentencesExamples
- Family members deliver these items through mortuary rituals, especially those performed annually on the deceased's death anniversary.
- The use of caves as mortuary sites by prehistoric Native Americans was widespread in the karst region of southwest Virginia.
- One of the most compelling features of the pyramids, in addition to the architectural feat of just building them, was their mortuary art.
- Thus, it is possible that the habitation area tested in 1991 and the mortuary area excavated in the 1960s were at least partly contemporaneous.
- The Ramesseum, a mortuary temple, contains a sixty-six foot tall seated statue of the pharaoh.
- Direct evidence for Mississippian mortuary ceremonialism, however, has not been widely reported in the Central Illinois River valley.
- More recent research on this topic proffered the notion that certain mortuary districts, composed of mounds or cemeteries, functioned as trade fair locations.
- Recent surveys of these sites, as well as one archaeological test excavation, give insights into the skeletal biology and mortuary practices of the individuals interred.
- A prehistoric bear shaman figurine was recovered from Ohio Hopewell mortuary contexts at Newark, Licking County, Ohio.
- The Archaic tradition is subdivided into early, middle, and late stages based on variations in technology, mortuary behavior, and subsistence.
- Particularly significant are the jet, amber and quartz items, valued as mortuary goods from prehistoric times onwards for their electrostatic and refractive properties.
- In conclusion, therefore, it is evident that the two major characteristics of the mortuary rituals described in this article are merriment and licence, especially of a sexual nature, and ritual mourning.
- However, this hypothesis has never been systematically tested using mortuary data from sites representing this time period.
- Outbreaks of disease and changes in attitudes toward mortuary customs are all reflected in the structure and organization of the Grafton cemetery.
- From here, the burial cortège, priests and visitors would pass through ceremonial halls onto a causeway that ascended the desert escarpment to the mortuary temple, built against the east face of the pyramid.
- Burial monuments and other mortuary rituals are often costly and elaborate.
- Ramesses III erected buildings at many sites throughout Egypt - the most famous edifice being the mortuary temple, Medinet Habu, near the Valley of the Kings.
- So the evidence is certainly mounting that Neanderthals, at least on occasion and in some areas of Eurasia, practised a variety of mortuary activities before and alongside burial.
- Many of these vessels show signs of wear and repair, and, therefore, cannot have been made expressly for the mortuary rite but were either owned by the deceased or given by the mourners.
- One interpretation is that the cave became a focus for mortuary rituals, including the defleshing of the dead.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus 'dead'. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th century.

In the Middle Ages a mortuary was a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate. The word derives from Latin mortuus ‘dead’, the source also of mortgage (Late Middle English), literally a ‘dead pledge’ because the debt dies when the pledge is redeemed; and mortify (Late Middle English) ‘deaden’, and related to murder. The current sense, ‘a room or building in which dead bodies are kept’, dates from the mid 19th century. In Paris the bodies of people found dead formerly were taken to a building at the eastern end of the Île de la Cité, where they were kept until identified. It was called the Morgue (from a French word for haughtiness or sad expression). By the 1830s morgue was being used in English for other mortuaries; the parallel use of French morgue is not recorded until the 1940s and was borrowed back from English.

Definition of mortuary in US English:

mortuary

nounˈmôrCHo͞oˌerēˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri

A funeral home or morgue.
Example sentencesExamples
- Principals and teachers from the affected schools arrived at the scene and waited with parents at the hospital and at the mortuary for the dead to be identified.
- The bodies keep coming to this mortuary in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
- Their bodies were taken to the Grahamstown mortuary where postmortem examinations will be held today.
- After searching frantically in the local hospitals he eventually found his wife's body in a mortuary.
- His widow yesterday visited the mortuary where his body lay, as the independent inquiry began into his death.
- The controversy over the bodies in the mortuary continues, but this time at national level.
- Following her death, the trust was also criticised for the difficulty the family had in seeing her body in the mortuary, which was said to be off-limits at the weekend.
- Meanwhile, he has appealed to churches, community leaders and other stakeholders to help the local authorities address the issue of unclaimed bodies in hospital mortuaries.
- After his retirement he continued with coroner's post-mortem examinations at the municipal mortuary.
- We're not allowed to film coffins being offloaded at Dover Air Force Base, where the national mortuary is.
- Then came the appalling task of formally identifying their daughter's body in the mortuary at the Bristol hospital.
- He also co-owns a chain of mortuaries, which kept him occupied in down years.
- She lay dead in the mortuary of the hospital for two weeks before her family was notified.
- The funeral home and mortuary had been in our family for decades.
- Though the disclosure was controversial, there is no doubt that this was the scoop of the year, and the picture of the bodies in the mortuary were sought by many newspapers round the world.
- For extra payment, undertakers began to offer wealthier people new facilities without the taint of the public mortuary to store their dead away from home.
- The man's brain had been kept in a standard, sealed container in the autopsy room in the hospital mortuary.
- The District Medical Officer viewed and ordered the body to be removed to the mortuary, pending an autopsy.
- They were reinterred several hours later after a Home Office pathologist, in the presence of an independent pathologist, carried out a new post-mortem examination at a local mortuary.
- Those who work at the Department of Defense's only mortuary in the continental United States see firsthand a grim reality of war.
- He also introduced a rickshaw service, which takes unclaimed bodies from the government mortuary for a proper burial.
- Her son said that when undertakers arrived to remove her body from the hospital mortuary two days later, the rings were missing from her fingers.
- But when the families went to pick up the bodies from the hospital mortuary, they were presented with a bill.
- The doctors were either too busy or unavailable to visit the mortuary to review the body after death.
- The body was viewed by the district medical officer, who ordered its removal to San Fernando mortuary.
- Police sealed off the area while scenes of crime officers photographed the incident site and carried out a forensic examination before the body was removed to the mortuary at York District Hospital.
Synonyms
morgue, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home

adjectiveˈmôrCHo͞oˌerēˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri

attributive Relating to burial or tombs.
mortuary rituals
a mortuary temple
Example sentencesExamples
- One interpretation is that the cave became a focus for mortuary rituals, including the defleshing of the dead.
- Family members deliver these items through mortuary rituals, especially those performed annually on the deceased's death anniversary.
- A prehistoric bear shaman figurine was recovered from Ohio Hopewell mortuary contexts at Newark, Licking County, Ohio.
- From here, the burial cortège, priests and visitors would pass through ceremonial halls onto a causeway that ascended the desert escarpment to the mortuary temple, built against the east face of the pyramid.
- One of the most compelling features of the pyramids, in addition to the architectural feat of just building them, was their mortuary art.
- The use of caves as mortuary sites by prehistoric Native Americans was widespread in the karst region of southwest Virginia.
- More recent research on this topic proffered the notion that certain mortuary districts, composed of mounds or cemeteries, functioned as trade fair locations.
- However, this hypothesis has never been systematically tested using mortuary data from sites representing this time period.
- In conclusion, therefore, it is evident that the two major characteristics of the mortuary rituals described in this article are merriment and licence, especially of a sexual nature, and ritual mourning.
- Burial monuments and other mortuary rituals are often costly and elaborate.
- So the evidence is certainly mounting that Neanderthals, at least on occasion and in some areas of Eurasia, practised a variety of mortuary activities before and alongside burial.
- Ramesses III erected buildings at many sites throughout Egypt - the most famous edifice being the mortuary temple, Medinet Habu, near the Valley of the Kings.
- The Ramesseum, a mortuary temple, contains a sixty-six foot tall seated statue of the pharaoh.
- The Archaic tradition is subdivided into early, middle, and late stages based on variations in technology, mortuary behavior, and subsistence.
- Outbreaks of disease and changes in attitudes toward mortuary customs are all reflected in the structure and organization of the Grafton cemetery.
- Particularly significant are the jet, amber and quartz items, valued as mortuary goods from prehistoric times onwards for their electrostatic and refractive properties.
- Direct evidence for Mississippian mortuary ceremonialism, however, has not been widely reported in the Central Illinois River valley.
- Recent surveys of these sites, as well as one archaeological test excavation, give insights into the skeletal biology and mortuary practices of the individuals interred.
- Thus, it is possible that the habitation area tested in 1991 and the mortuary area excavated in the 1960s were at least partly contemporaneous.
- Many of these vessels show signs of wear and repair, and, therefore, cannot have been made expressly for the mortuary rite but were either owned by the deceased or given by the mourners.

Origin

Late Middle English (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus ‘dead’. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th century.

单词	mortuary
释义	Definition of mortuary in English: mortuary nounPlural mortuaries ˈmɔːtjʊəriˈmɔːtʃʊriˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri A room or building in which dead bodies are kept, for hygienic storage or for examination, until burial or cremation. Example sentencesExamples He also introduced a rickshaw service, which takes unclaimed bodies from the government mortuary for a proper burial. Her son said that when undertakers arrived to remove her body from the hospital mortuary two days later, the rings were missing from her fingers. The bodies keep coming to this mortuary in the southern Indian city of Chennai. They were reinterred several hours later after a Home Office pathologist, in the presence of an independent pathologist, carried out a new post-mortem examination at a local mortuary. The doctors were either too busy or unavailable to visit the mortuary to review the body after death. Then came the appalling task of formally identifying their daughter's body in the mortuary at the Bristol hospital. Those who work at the Department of Defense's only mortuary in the continental United States see firsthand a grim reality of war. The controversy over the bodies in the mortuary continues, but this time at national level. She lay dead in the mortuary of the hospital for two weeks before her family was notified. Principals and teachers from the affected schools arrived at the scene and waited with parents at the hospital and at the mortuary for the dead to be identified. Following her death, the trust was also criticised for the difficulty the family had in seeing her body in the mortuary, which was said to be off-limits at the weekend. He also co-owns a chain of mortuaries, which kept him occupied in down years. But when the families went to pick up the bodies from the hospital mortuary, they were presented with a bill. After his retirement he continued with coroner's post-mortem examinations at the municipal mortuary. For extra payment, undertakers began to offer wealthier people new facilities without the taint of the public mortuary to store their dead away from home. Police sealed off the area while scenes of crime officers photographed the incident site and carried out a forensic examination before the body was removed to the mortuary at York District Hospital. His widow yesterday visited the mortuary where his body lay, as the independent inquiry began into his death. After searching frantically in the local hospitals he eventually found his wife's body in a mortuary. Meanwhile, he has appealed to churches, community leaders and other stakeholders to help the local authorities address the issue of unclaimed bodies in hospital mortuaries. The District Medical Officer viewed and ordered the body to be removed to the mortuary, pending an autopsy. Though the disclosure was controversial, there is no doubt that this was the scoop of the year, and the picture of the bodies in the mortuary were sought by many newspapers round the world. The man's brain had been kept in a standard, sealed container in the autopsy room in the hospital mortuary. The funeral home and mortuary had been in our family for decades. We're not allowed to film coffins being offloaded at Dover Air Force Base, where the national mortuary is. Their bodies were taken to the Grahamstown mortuary where postmortem examinations will be held today. The body was viewed by the district medical officer, who ordered its removal to San Fernando mortuary. Synonyms morgue, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home British chapel of rest archaic charnel house, dead house, lych-house adjective ˈmɔːtjʊəriˈmɔːtʃʊriˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri Relating to burial or tombs. mortuary rituals a mortuary temple Example sentencesExamples Family members deliver these items through mortuary rituals, especially those performed annually on the deceased's death anniversary. The use of caves as mortuary sites by prehistoric Native Americans was widespread in the karst region of southwest Virginia. One of the most compelling features of the pyramids, in addition to the architectural feat of just building them, was their mortuary art. Thus, it is possible that the habitation area tested in 1991 and the mortuary area excavated in the 1960s were at least partly contemporaneous. The Ramesseum, a mortuary temple, contains a sixty-six foot tall seated statue of the pharaoh. Direct evidence for Mississippian mortuary ceremonialism, however, has not been widely reported in the Central Illinois River valley. More recent research on this topic proffered the notion that certain mortuary districts, composed of mounds or cemeteries, functioned as trade fair locations. Recent surveys of these sites, as well as one archaeological test excavation, give insights into the skeletal biology and mortuary practices of the individuals interred. A prehistoric bear shaman figurine was recovered from Ohio Hopewell mortuary contexts at Newark, Licking County, Ohio. The Archaic tradition is subdivided into early, middle, and late stages based on variations in technology, mortuary behavior, and subsistence. Particularly significant are the jet, amber and quartz items, valued as mortuary goods from prehistoric times onwards for their electrostatic and refractive properties. In conclusion, therefore, it is evident that the two major characteristics of the mortuary rituals described in this article are merriment and licence, especially of a sexual nature, and ritual mourning. However, this hypothesis has never been systematically tested using mortuary data from sites representing this time period. Outbreaks of disease and changes in attitudes toward mortuary customs are all reflected in the structure and organization of the Grafton cemetery. From here, the burial cortège, priests and visitors would pass through ceremonial halls onto a causeway that ascended the desert escarpment to the mortuary temple, built against the east face of the pyramid. Burial monuments and other mortuary rituals are often costly and elaborate. Ramesses III erected buildings at many sites throughout Egypt - the most famous edifice being the mortuary temple, Medinet Habu, near the Valley of the Kings. So the evidence is certainly mounting that Neanderthals, at least on occasion and in some areas of Eurasia, practised a variety of mortuary activities before and alongside burial. Many of these vessels show signs of wear and repair, and, therefore, cannot have been made expressly for the mortuary rite but were either owned by the deceased or given by the mourners. One interpretation is that the cave became a focus for mortuary rituals, including the defleshing of the dead. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus 'dead'. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th century. In the Middle Ages a mortuary was a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate. The word derives from Latin mortuus ‘dead’, the source also of mortgage (Late Middle English), literally a ‘dead pledge’ because the debt dies when the pledge is redeemed; and mortify (Late Middle English) ‘deaden’, and related to murder. The current sense, ‘a room or building in which dead bodies are kept’, dates from the mid 19th century. In Paris the bodies of people found dead formerly were taken to a building at the eastern end of the Île de la Cité, where they were kept until identified. It was called the Morgue (from a French word for haughtiness or sad expression). By the 1830s morgue was being used in English for other mortuaries; the parallel use of French morgue is not recorded until the 1940s and was borrowed back from English. Definition of mortuary in US English: mortuary nounˈmôrCHo͞oˌerēˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri A funeral home or morgue. Example sentencesExamples Principals and teachers from the affected schools arrived at the scene and waited with parents at the hospital and at the mortuary for the dead to be identified. The bodies keep coming to this mortuary in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Their bodies were taken to the Grahamstown mortuary where postmortem examinations will be held today. After searching frantically in the local hospitals he eventually found his wife's body in a mortuary. His widow yesterday visited the mortuary where his body lay, as the independent inquiry began into his death. The controversy over the bodies in the mortuary continues, but this time at national level. Following her death, the trust was also criticised for the difficulty the family had in seeing her body in the mortuary, which was said to be off-limits at the weekend. Meanwhile, he has appealed to churches, community leaders and other stakeholders to help the local authorities address the issue of unclaimed bodies in hospital mortuaries. After his retirement he continued with coroner's post-mortem examinations at the municipal mortuary. We're not allowed to film coffins being offloaded at Dover Air Force Base, where the national mortuary is. Then came the appalling task of formally identifying their daughter's body in the mortuary at the Bristol hospital. He also co-owns a chain of mortuaries, which kept him occupied in down years. She lay dead in the mortuary of the hospital for two weeks before her family was notified. The funeral home and mortuary had been in our family for decades. Though the disclosure was controversial, there is no doubt that this was the scoop of the year, and the picture of the bodies in the mortuary were sought by many newspapers round the world. For extra payment, undertakers began to offer wealthier people new facilities without the taint of the public mortuary to store their dead away from home. The man's brain had been kept in a standard, sealed container in the autopsy room in the hospital mortuary. The District Medical Officer viewed and ordered the body to be removed to the mortuary, pending an autopsy. They were reinterred several hours later after a Home Office pathologist, in the presence of an independent pathologist, carried out a new post-mortem examination at a local mortuary. Those who work at the Department of Defense's only mortuary in the continental United States see firsthand a grim reality of war. He also introduced a rickshaw service, which takes unclaimed bodies from the government mortuary for a proper burial. Her son said that when undertakers arrived to remove her body from the hospital mortuary two days later, the rings were missing from her fingers. But when the families went to pick up the bodies from the hospital mortuary, they were presented with a bill. The doctors were either too busy or unavailable to visit the mortuary to review the body after death. The body was viewed by the district medical officer, who ordered its removal to San Fernando mortuary. Police sealed off the area while scenes of crime officers photographed the incident site and carried out a forensic examination before the body was removed to the mortuary at York District Hospital. Synonyms morgue, funeral parlour, funeral chapel, funeral home adjectiveˈmôrCHo͞oˌerēˈmɔrtʃuˌɛri attributive Relating to burial or tombs. mortuary rituals a mortuary temple Example sentencesExamples One interpretation is that the cave became a focus for mortuary rituals, including the defleshing of the dead. Family members deliver these items through mortuary rituals, especially those performed annually on the deceased's death anniversary. A prehistoric bear shaman figurine was recovered from Ohio Hopewell mortuary contexts at Newark, Licking County, Ohio. From here, the burial cortège, priests and visitors would pass through ceremonial halls onto a causeway that ascended the desert escarpment to the mortuary temple, built against the east face of the pyramid. One of the most compelling features of the pyramids, in addition to the architectural feat of just building them, was their mortuary art. The use of caves as mortuary sites by prehistoric Native Americans was widespread in the karst region of southwest Virginia. More recent research on this topic proffered the notion that certain mortuary districts, composed of mounds or cemeteries, functioned as trade fair locations. However, this hypothesis has never been systematically tested using mortuary data from sites representing this time period. In conclusion, therefore, it is evident that the two major characteristics of the mortuary rituals described in this article are merriment and licence, especially of a sexual nature, and ritual mourning. Burial monuments and other mortuary rituals are often costly and elaborate. So the evidence is certainly mounting that Neanderthals, at least on occasion and in some areas of Eurasia, practised a variety of mortuary activities before and alongside burial. Ramesses III erected buildings at many sites throughout Egypt - the most famous edifice being the mortuary temple, Medinet Habu, near the Valley of the Kings. The Ramesseum, a mortuary temple, contains a sixty-six foot tall seated statue of the pharaoh. The Archaic tradition is subdivided into early, middle, and late stages based on variations in technology, mortuary behavior, and subsistence. Outbreaks of disease and changes in attitudes toward mortuary customs are all reflected in the structure and organization of the Grafton cemetery. Particularly significant are the jet, amber and quartz items, valued as mortuary goods from prehistoric times onwards for their electrostatic and refractive properties. Direct evidence for Mississippian mortuary ceremonialism, however, has not been widely reported in the Central Illinois River valley. Recent surveys of these sites, as well as one archaeological test excavation, give insights into the skeletal biology and mortuary practices of the individuals interred. Thus, it is possible that the habitation area tested in 1991 and the mortuary area excavated in the 1960s were at least partly contemporaneous. Many of these vessels show signs of wear and repair, and, therefore, cannot have been made expressly for the mortuary rite but were either owned by the deceased or given by the mourners. Origin Late Middle English (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus ‘dead’. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th century.
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