mortuary defined

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noun (plural mortuaries)

• a funeral home or morgue.

adjective

[attributive]

• of or relating to burial or tombs:mortuary rituals a mortuary temple

Origin:

late Middle English (denoting a gift claimed by a parish priest from a deceased person's estate): from Latin mortuarius, from mortuus 'dead'. The current noun sense dates from the mid 19th century

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mor·tu·ar·ies, adjective

noun

1.funeral home.

2.a customary gift formerly claimed by and due to the incumbent of a parish in England from the estate of a deceased parishioner. 
adjective

3.of or pertaining to the burial of the dead.

4.pertaining to or connected with death.

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