mortuary

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"We came to know about the death on Sunday night and after seven hours, Sahaja confirmed that the body at the mortuary was that of Soumya's," another relative Srinivas Reddy said.

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  1. noun A place, especially a funeral home, where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation.
  2. adjective Of or relating to burial practices.
  3. adjective Relating to or characteristic of death.

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  • The mortuary was a modern one, like the greater part of the city and all its public buildings. —  Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets - 04—Simenon, Georges
  • The man who made the arrangements with the mortuary was named Dineen. —  Murder Can Be Fun
  • The mortuary was a long shed with a big roll-up door standing open. —  Killing Floor by Lee Child
  • Run a line of chalk round the body and get the bluebottle in there to ring for the mortuary-van. —  Death In Ecstasy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 04: 1936
  • He had to wait until we got the body to the mortuary, and there was really no need for me to be there, either, but I thought he would expect it, my being a friend of the family, so to speak, and being on dining terms with them and what not, so I showed up. —  Lovers, Make Moan - Gladys Mitchell-Bradley 60
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  1. Middle English mortuarie, gift to a parish priest from the estate of the deceased, funeral service, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin mortuārium, receptacle for dead things, neuter of mortuārius, of the dead, from mortuus, dead, past participle of morī, to die; see mer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French mortuaire = Spanish mortuorio = Portuguese mortuario = Italian mortorio, mortoro, from Latin mortuarius, belonging to the dead, Middle Latin neuter mortuarium, also mortuorium, a mortuary, from Latin mortuus, dead: see mort.
 

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/ˈmɔrtʃjuəri/
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