Crossword clues for mortuary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
funeral home \fu"ner*al home`\, n. An establishment, usually commercial, where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation; called also funeral parlor, mortuary, funeral chapel and informally, undertaker's. The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial, and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing, though present in a casket. Often, some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home, where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead, and express condolence to the family. The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Anglo-French mortuarie "gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner," from Medieval Latin mortuarium, noun use of neuter of Late Latin adjective mortuarius "pertaining to the dead," from Latin mortuus, past participle of mori "to die" (see mortal (adj.)). Meaning "place where bodies are kept temporarily" first recorded 1865, a euphemism for earlier deadhouse.
1510s, "pertaining to death," from Late Latin mortuarius "of the dead," from Latin mortuus "dead" (see mortuary (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. of, or relating to death or a funeral; funereal n. 1 a place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation 2 a morgue 3 (context historical English) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Mortuary is a 2005 American zombie film directed by Tobe Hooper. It stars Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi and Denise Crosby. This film has no connection to the 1983 film of the same name.
Mortuary (also known as Embalmed in the UK and Hall of Death in West Germany) is a 1983 slasher film/ horror movie which starred Bill Paxton, Mary Beth McDonough, David Wallace, Lynda Day George, with Michael Berryman (who only appears in the film's trailer) and Christopher George in one of his final roles. It centered on a hooded face painted killer who stabbed or impaled his victims with/on an embalming trocar. On May 25, 2012 the film was release for the first time on DVD.
A mortuary or funeral home is a place where dead bodies await final disposition such as burial or cremation.
Mortuary may also refer to:
- Mortuary (1983 American film), a 1983 slasher film/horror film
- Mortuary (1983 Indian film), a 1983 Indian Malayalam film
- Mortuary (2005 film), a 2005 American zombie film
- "Mortuary" (The Simple Life episode)
Mortuary is a 1983 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Baby and produced by K. Pushparajan. The film stars Prem Nazir, Shankar Panikkar, Madhu and Balan K. Nair in lead roles. The film had musical score by K. J. Joy.
Usage examples of "mortuary".
Her face was set and so pale that the blusher seemed almost garish, the kind of work mortuary beauticians do.
He used a penlight to study a spiral-bound notebook in which he had kept a record of the unusual activities at the mortuary.
The small tombs have their chapels contained in their stone mastabas or superstructures, but the mortuary chapels of the pyramids, where regal Pharaohs lay, were separate temples, each to the east of its corresponding pyramid, and connected by a causeway to a massive gate-chapel or propylon at the edge of the rock plateau.
January sixteenth the corpse of one James Trayle disappeared from the mortuary in Treakhill.
Wherever the Mafia had grown and prospered since Prohibition, these other savages were there as well, ever clinging to the shadows as the more flamboyant amici filled headlines and mortuaries, lending their advice and financial acumen where it was lacking in their Mafia comrades, Siegel, Buchalter, Cohen, Lansky.
This written promise he sealed with his seal, and placed in the butsudan beside the mortuary tablet of O-Tei.
When they came to the Deptford mortuary he left them to meditations in a grim antechamber and went in alone.
Mortuary is in a boggy part of Monterey near Lake El Estero, where a cemetery is also located.
When Ramachandra casually pulled the cover aside, Sorokin saw that the stone was carved in the form of a gisant, a larger-than-life mortuary sculpture.
The mayor, Pericu, came to the mortuary every morning, asking if he could stay by the door.
I feel I shall do you credit in the witness box, although the thunder, I suspect, will be stolen by the police doctor, who will be in the enviable position of one to whom the city mortuary is his washpot, not to mention that over the police-station hath he cast out his shoe.
There were two doctors at the mortuary, aged men, the family doctor of the Bassets, the surgeon of the county police.
The mortuary decor leaned to wainscoting, topped with wallpaper murals showing soft mountain landscapes, forests of ever-greens with paths meandering through the woods.
It is also decreed that the mortuary act of the aforesaid de Lamotte the younger, dated the sixteenth day of February last, in the register of deaths belonging to the parish church of Saint-Louis at Versailles, be amended, and his correct names be substituted, in order that the said Sieur de Lamotte, the father, and other persons interested, may produce said names before the magistrates if required.
Details, as you must know, is a composite affair, with a whole bunch of journalists digging out nuggets and also a network of informants in hospitals, mortuaries, night clubs, police stations and all sorts of less savoury places, telephoning in with the dirt and collecting their dues.