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English
Etymology
From sepulture + -al.
Adjective
sepultural (comparative more sepultural, superlative most sepultural)
- Of or pertaining to sepulture.
1789, J. Lewis’s Mem. Dk. Glocester, page 72; quoted in “Sepultural”, in James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 483, column 2:If the sepultural spot could be ascertained, he would erect a stately monument over it.
1821 January 14, “Provincial Intelligence”, in John Bull, number 5, page 40, column 1:No remains of sepultural enclosure were discernible.
1889, “Sketch of Pierre Belon”, in William J Youmans, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume XXXIV, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, , page 697:Besides the works already described, Belon published a history of conifers and a treatise on the funeral monuments and sepultural usages of the ancients and the substances used by them for the preservation of bodies.