Crossword clues for mortician
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895, American English, coined from mortuary + -ician, as in physician.An undertaker will no longer be known as an "undertaker and embalmer." In the future he will be known as the "mortician." This was decided on at the second day's meeting of the Funeral Directors' Association of Kentucky, which was held in Louisville. ["The Medical Herald," July 1895]
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) An undertaker or funeral director
WordNet
n. one whose business is the management of funerals [syn: undertaker, funeral undertaker, funeral director]
Wikipedia
Mortician may refer to:
- A Funeral director
- Mortician (band), a death metal band
- Mortician (comics), a villain in Batman comics
Mortician is a two-piece brutal death metal band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989. They have released most of their albums since the House by the Cemetery EP on Relapse Records but have released their latest album on their own label, Mortician Records. They have toured several times through America and Europe. The band is heavily inspired by horror movies, which is expressed in the lyrics, the artwork and the use of samples throughout their discography.
Usage examples of "mortician".
I keep thinking of how easy it could be for a mortician to get rid of an inconvenient corpse.
In a few short sentences he explained about his encounter with the mortician that morning.
The mortician resumed snipping and gumming, shaking his head, grinning like a clown.
The mortician was looking sardonic over a large dish of blood-coloured ice cream.
The mortician looked at Enderby with very small interest and went on eating ice cream.
Alva Dawson, the ex-deputy sheriff, and Herman Tubick, the mortician, had tied.
All it took was the shuddering thought of spending the holidays with Seymour the mortician to focus her energies on adoring Luke.
I saw the mortician dashing about aimlessly, a distracted look on his face.
Claux was a Parisian mortician who confessed to murders in the mid-nineties.
Jasmine had found morticians to be some of the most stable and sane people she had ever met.
They were bakers, tinworkers, brewers, tanners, ropemakers, lumberjacks, printers, morticians, woodworkers, stay-makers, and more.
When he finally arrived at the church, properly cravatted, he observed three generations of Dingleberry morticians in charge: old Adam propped up in the narthex, his sons handling details with inconspicuous efficiency, and his grandsons marshalling the procession.
Mostly I just sat there sucking on a cold filter tip, thinking that I saw more stiffs in my work than a mortician who gives green stamps.
They were the garbage collectors and the morticians too, which was why Valavirgillin had not buried her dead.
Kerry, bursting with all the charisma of a mortician, is a very liberal Catholic.