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UK
/mˈɔːtjuːəɹˌi/
]
[ US /ˈmɔɹtʃuˌɛɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈmɔɹtʃuˌɛɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to a funeral
- of or relating to or characteristic of death
NOUN
- a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
How To Use mortuary In A Sentence
- Guidelines from the Royal College of Pathologists allow mortuary technicians to dissect bodies and remove organs in the absence of the pathologist.
- Yet I was again approached with a request for samples when I was in the mortuary saying my last goodbyes.
- In the fourteenth century this custom greatly increased, and small additional side aisles and transepts were often annexed to churches and called mortuary chapels; these were used indeed as chantries, but they were more independent in their constitution, and in general more ample in their endowments. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See
- Trevor Dean, a director of mortuary services at the Dover facility, voluntarily accepted a reduction in pay and a nonmanagement job. Military Lost Troops' Remains
- Both stand guard over a giant pylon of the mortuary temple of Amenophis the Third.
- The other is Mortuary, which presents the sanitary walls and gleaming metal surfaces of an unpeopled morgue.
- The controversy over the bodies in the mortuary continues, but this time at national level.
- Some churches are as warm and inviting as a mortuary slab.
- Particularly significant are the jet, amber and quartz items, valued as mortuary goods from prehistoric times onwards for their electrostatic and refractive properties.
- She lay dead in the mortuary of the hospital for two weeks before her family was notified.