noun
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A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation.
definition
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
adjective
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Of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal
Examples of mortuary in a Sentence
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.
The mortuary chapel attached to the Roman Catholic church of St Mary was built to receive the body of Napoleon III., who died at Camden Place in 1873; and that of his son was brought hither in 1879.
Within 24 hours of the attacks, a temporary mortuary had been set up.
A district council may also provide and maintain a proper place (otherwise than at a workhouse or at a mortuary) for the reception of dead bodies during the time required to conduct any post mortem examination ordered by a coroner.
These services include airdrop and mortuary affairs (MA ).
Dawson's view was that this was solely a mortuary chapel built at the beginning of the 18thC.
Bush was caught bantering as flag-draped coffins arrived at an air force base in Dover, Delaware - a military mortuary.
The film then cuts sharply to a sterile mortuary and the rough face of ranch foreman Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones ).
Other buildings included a mortuary at the northeast of the site.
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.
Later additions included a mortuary and a steam laundry.
Her son was murdered, and when she visited the mortuary, she was not allowed to touch the body.
We have no mortuary; all we have is a screen which we place around the bed.
Our concerns are legitimate practical, physical, environmental and psychological concerns by those of us who live close to the proposed mortuary.
More than 70 homes will overlook the new mortuary, which will store a maximum of eight bodies in a refrigeration unit.
A small mortuary stood immediately to the north of the main building.
We do not have a public mortuary in the Boro.
It was founded as a Settlement in 1887 and its base is a community center in an old mortuary in the center of Rotherhithe.
The body would be taken to the hospital mortuary.
Thus the infants school in Weymouth House in Abbey Green was used as the emergency mortuary.
By analogy with other Beaker graves, it may suggest that a timber mortuary ' house ' enclosed the coffin.
They are both then seen purified with holy water by a priest connected with the mortuary temple of Thothmes III.
The vestry of the parish of Marylebone have erected a large public mortuary in the burial ground at Paddington.
Since 2001 this mortuary science haunted house has been one of the park's most popular attractions.
When it was opened, it contained a bakery, a butcher, a bowling alley, an ice house, a police station, a nursery, and even a mortuary.
Then, T.I. took him to a mortuary to give him a wake up call about the real dangers of the life he was leading.
T.I. stepped in and took her to a mortuary to give her a reality check about what her mother would have to deal with if she were to die because of her gang involvement.
It contains many handsome monuments and private mausoleums, and a beautiful mortuary chapel in the Norman style.
Where the body of a person who has died of an infectious disease is retained in a room where persons live or sleep, or the retention of any dead body may endanger health, any justice on the certificate of a medical practitioner may order the removal of a body to a mortuary and direct the body to be buried within a time limited by the friends of the deceased or in their default by the relieving officer.
The English garden, a beautiful public park, contains the ducal mortuary chapel and several monuments, including busts of Brahms and Jean Paul Richter.
This has happened for some years, the paper states, because the chiller cabinets of the mortuary are full.
He embraces, not her, but an... armless, elderly female cadaver (stolen by Doc from the college mortuary )!
Power of resident magistrate to order dead body to be removed to mortuary or buried forthwith.