[ UK /mˈɔːtjuːəɹˌi/ ]
[ US /ˈmɔɹtʃuˌɛɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to a funeral
  2. of or relating to or characteristic of death
NOUN
  1. a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
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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.
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