What does "mortuary" mean?
Mortuary: A burial place; a place for the dead.
Additional senses
- 2.A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
- 3.Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments. Mortuary urn, an urn for holding the ashes of the dead.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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