The present participle of ensepulcher; the act of entombing or placing someone in a sepulcher.
From ensepulcher + -ing (present participle suffix). This continuous form describes the ongoing or progressive action of placing something within a burial chamber.
Medieval clergy and nobility used this word when discussing funeral rites and the ceremonial placement of bodies in crypts and tombs—it's the formal verb form for treating death with maximum solemnity.
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