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Sepultur(e, n. Also: sepultuir, -eur, sepultour(e, -ore, sepilltur, sapulture. [ME and e.m.E. sepultur(e (1297), F. sépulture (c1112 in Larousse), L. sepultūra burial. Cf. Sepulcre n.]

1. Interment, burial.(1) 1375 Barb. xx 605.
Quhen … men had richly gert ma With fayr effer his sepultur 1456 Misc. Bann. C. III 97.
To be brynt in wax in the day of my sepultur c1490 Irland Asl. MS 76/13.
And in His sepultur of His bodye and the discence to hell of His saull 1490 Irland Mir. II 17/26.
Of His passioun deid and sepultur a1538 Abell 42a.
Eftir the sepulture or beriȝin of Constance 1549 Compl. 5/35.
He gart mony of his enemeis resaue ther sepulture be for the said toune a1568 Weddirburne Bann. MS 288a/47.
Than thay sowld provyd for thair sepulture a1568 Scott xvii 34.
Fairweill, I will my sepultur persew 1574 Edinb. Test. III 217.
To caus my body be honestlie convoyit the day of my sepulture(2) c1475 Wall. ix 1541.
He ordand [them] … for no costis spayr, Bot honour do the corp till sepultur

2. A place of interment, a burial plot; a grave, tomb; a graveyard. Also (once) fig.Also without article, and in (in-tyl), on and to sepulture.Some of the Wynt. quots. may perhaps belong in sense 1.(1) a1400 Leg. S. iii 794.
Schow … Lad hym in the sammyn sepulture, That schow fore hyr-self had mad a1400 Leg. S. xxviii 718.
A sepultur He gert mak 1399 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 42.
At the altare of Sante Nicholas in the said abbay qware that the said (Davi) has ordanit his sepulture 14.. Acts I 380/2.
Al defoularis of gravis or sepulturis 1456 Hay I 279/3.
Men suld knaw be the takynyng of thair armes thair sepulturis quhare thai ar beryit a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 668.
Fra thai be sesit in thar sepulture Till [etc.] a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1305.
Thair wes ane sepilltur Out of ane crag carwit rycht perfitly 1502–3 Treas. Acc. II 289.
To David Pret, payntour, in pairt of payment of the making of the kingis sepultur in Cambuskinneth 1526 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. I 155.
Our collectour … sall ȝeirlie sett ane honest stuill apoun the said Jhonis sepultur … and sall find sax honest wax candillis to birne one the stuill 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 703.
And we sall syng, about ȝour sepulture, Sanct Mongois matynis, and the mekle creid 1531 Bell. Boece I 48.
On thir sepulturis was ingravin imageris of dragonis, wolfis, and othir beistis 1531 Bell. Boece I 108, etc. 1549 Compl. 81/6.
Ane drynk of poyson gart him [sc. Alexander] be content of ane sepulture of fiue fute of lyntht c1550 Lynd. Test. Meldrum 59.
My sepulture syne gar mak for my banis … Of marbill stanis caruit richt curiouslie 1562-3 Winȝet I 114/19.
Bellis, sepulturis of brace, leid, and siklyke a1568 Bann. Bann. MS 231a/56.
To luk vpoun my rewthfull sepulture a1570-86 Maitl. F. 343/23. 1581 Edinb. Test. X 101b.
My body to be bureit in the commoun sepulture of my parroche kirk ?1549 Monro W. Isles (1961) 63.
Colmkill … wes wont to be the sepulture of the best men of all the Iles 1684 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Reg. H.) 18 Nov.
That my corpes may be buried in the common sepultur amongst the faithfull(b) 1535 Stewart 99.
Sepultuir 1569 Soc. Ant. VI 53.
For the len of certane daillis to be ane vaill the tyme of the building of the sepulteur [sc. of the Regent Moray] 1622-6 Bisset II 360/36.
These thrie lyis buryed in Dune as thair sepultuir(c) a1400 Leg. S. iv 253.
Sepultore c1490 Irland Asl. MS 49/5.
Quhen thow cummis thar and seis the sepultour of thi frendis a1500 Bk. Chess 1598.
Thai … brocht the bischope to the sepultour Tuk wp the stone [etc.] a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 513.
The preistis of the law To berry pilgrames bocht ane sepultour 1535 Stewart 2012.
Tha sesit him thair in his sepultourfig. a1500 Bk. Chess 179.
Ydilnes but letteris … is … of a liffand man the sepultour(2) c1420 Wynt. vi 1495.
The cardynalys … hym decleryd wnworthy Till hawe halowyd sepulture c1420 Wynt. vii 818.
The Kyng Alysawndyr … [wes] browcht till Dunfermlyng Quhare he wes … Enteryd in halowyd sepultoure c1420 Wynt. vii 348.
Sepultoure a1538 Abell 4*b.
Dunfermlyn wes maid sepultur of kyngis 1567 G. Ball. 117.
Thair bodyis … Unburyit was, void of all sepulture 1622-6 Bisset I 43/30.
Gif on companȝeoun … be slane, … he salbe buryed, and the committare left, but sepultour(3) c1420 Wynt. ii 718.
His body … Wes put in tyll honest sepultoure c1475 Wall. x 586.
In the Fawkyrk [they] graithit him in sepultour 1490 Irland Mir. II 19/8.
Jhesu Crist … was crucifiit deid and put in sepultur 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1098. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 59/24.
As quha wald bid ane deid man dance, In sepulture 1513 Doug. iii i 78.
Haue reuth of hym now laid in sepultur 1513 Doug. vi v 145.
At the leist, grave me in sepulture 1533 Boece 99b.
In honorabill sepulture in the plane feild of Evon he was beryit 1533 Boece 356.
He was laid in sepulture with this epithaphie 1535 Stewart 38584.
King Malcolme … tuke the Scottis in the feild war slane, … And put thame all ilkone in sepultuir 1554 Duncan Laideus Test. 166.
Mair nor to put corps in sepulture(4) a1400 Leg. S. xviii 1336.
& vthyre prayere with besy cure, That suld be sad one sepulture(5) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 2053.
To sepultur thai gart him bring c1420 Wynt. v 2556.
All thai that … Suld put hys cors to sepultoure a1568 Bann. MS 219a/34.
Trew men ar now left behynd With sorow slane and send to sapulture

b. The Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. = Sepulcre n. 1 b. c1450-2 Howlat 473 (A).
Our saluatouris sepulture a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 1083 (Harl.).
Josaphe … Syne graithit Him vnto His sepulture c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xxxvii 11.
The knychtis keparis of Christis sepultour

3. A structure (usually temporary and moveable) erected in a church at Easter as a repository for the reserved Sacrament. 1494–5 Treas. Acc. I 228.
For the mending of the sepulture a1500 Coll. St. Salvator 133.
[The Easter Sepulchre is described as] ane gret sepultur with ane ymage off our Saluiour liand therwithin and ane swdour of quhit silk abon the sam a1500 Coll. St. Salvator 157.
For the sepultur of brass tua chandelaris 1553–4 Edinb. B. Rec. 351.
For the keping of the sepulture at Pasche 1559 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I xc.
A capin for the sepulture, of damas

4. Appar., a small box or casket. Also transf. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 145.
I send unto you ane sepulture of hard stane, collourit with blak, sawin with teiris and bonestransf. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 146.
The stane I compair to my hart … as it is caruit in ane sure sepulture or harbor of ȝour commandementis