Definitions

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  • noun US An undertaker or funeral director

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one whose business is the management of funerals

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin mors, mort-, death; see mortal + –ician.]

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Examples

  • Using the term "mortician," making videos of their profession, and just love telling people what they do.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Christian Josi 2012

  • But when Johnny Johnson, a mortician from the Army Human Resources department came to Christy Miller Jackman's home in Sacramento, the Miller sisters tried to pin him down on specifics.

    Miller, Glenn E. 1968

  • The mortician was a long thin man with a long thin face and the morose, saintly, weak expression of a starving gazelle.

    Grim laughs: A question on humor and crime fiction Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • You know, the barber and the mortician were the biggest, that's the only thing they'll let you have in the black community is the barbershop and the morticians.

    Oral History Interview with Thurman Couch, February 12, 2001. Interview K-0537. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 2001

  • I wanted to order him to call the mortician and have a hearse drawn up in front of the hotel.

    Twilight’s Child V.C. ANDREWS 1992

  • I wanted to order him to call the mortician and have a hearse drawn up in front of the hotel.

    Twilight’s Child V.C. ANDREWS 1992

  • Today the mortician is a funeral director and a grief counselor.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • "Why isn't the mayor talking about crisis intervention teams, instead of sending cops out who have no training in intervention with distraught people, who are not trained in crisis de-escalation … Calling the police to do a non-violent intervention with a troubled person is like calling the mortician to deliver a baby."

    CounterPunch 2010

  • Remember, if you check sixty-five tests, one or more is probably going to be out of the normal range, so don’t call the mortician until you check the out-of-range results with your doctor.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

  • Remember, if you check sixty-five tests, one or more is probably going to be out of the normal range, so don’t call the mortician until you check the out-of-range results with your doctor.

    You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007

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