Crossword-Solution: MORTUARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mortuary | a. | A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty. |
| Mortuary | a. | A burial place; a place for the dead. |
| Mortuary | a. | A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue. |
| Mortuary | a. | Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “MORTUARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bill Paxton horror film of 1984 | 1 answer |
| Building for corpses prior to burial or cremation | 1 answer |
| Embalmer's place of business | 1 answer |
| building where corpses are kept before burial or cremation | 1 answer |
| Dead center? | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MORTUARY (5)
But so clever were this young man’s quick sympathies and perceptions that he already learned that in these semi-mortuary manifestations there was no cause for alarm.
When he had managed to get under the floor he took out pieces of the ceiling beneath, and jumped down into the mortuary a floor below.
The undertaker, true to his craft, had made the best display he could of his goods, and there was a mortuary air about the place that lowered our spirits at once.
Here is indeed a servant, whom we forget that we possess; who does not wait at the bright table, or run at the bell’s summons, but patiently smokes his pipe beside the mortuary fire, and in his faithful memory notches the burials of our race.
Dashaway will kindly tell me how any civilized person can furnish a room out of the mortuary pieces that he calls----” She remembered.
Quotes with MORTUARY (3)
Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.
I used to fear their deaths--the car! the dog! the sea! the germ!--until I realized it need never be a problem: on the trolley, on the way to the mortuary, I would put my hands into their ribs and take their hearts and swallow them, and give birth to them again, so that they would never, ever end.
This isn’t a religious book though I mention God, not a medical advisory though I speak of pain. It’s a circus, a mortuary, a grade school, a limousine ride. Will it be worth the paper it’s printed on or the screen you hold in your hand? I just hope you remember it next week.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2007).