Meaning of CHARNEL
| Pronunciation: | | 'chârnl
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- [n] a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited
- [adj] gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
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| | Synonyms: | | charnel house, ghastly, offensive, sepulchral |
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| | See Also: | | burial vault, vault | |
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\Char"nel\, a. [F. charnel carnal, fleshly, fr. L.
carnalis. See {Carnal}.]
Containing the bodies of the dead. ``Charnel vaults.''
--Milton.
{Charnel house}, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place
where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a
place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in
old burial grounds.
\Char"nel\, n.
A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.
In their proud charnel of Thermopyl[ae]. --Byron.
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