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mortuary
mortuary is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses
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- 1adjective
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
- 2adjective
A burial place; a place for the dead.
- 3adjective
A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.
- 4adjective
Of or pertaining to the dead; as, mortuary monuments.
- 5noun
a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
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- 6adjective
of or relating to a funeral
- 7adjective
of or relating to or characteristic of death
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