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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɔːt͡ʃʊəɹi/, /ˈmɔːt͡ʃwəɹi/

形容詞

mortuary (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
   • 2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151:

     The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.

派生語

名詞

mortuary (plural mortuaries)

1. A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.

   Coordinate terms: deadhouse, morgue, (obsolete) lich-house

   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     It was anciently usual to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it came to be buried

2. (historical) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.

   Synonym: soulscot

派生語

関連する語

• mortician
• soulscot

参考

• (room in a mortuary where corpses are placed under a rinsing shower): lavatory

アナグラム

• marry out