Definitions
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- noun US An
undertaker orfuneral 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
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Today the mortician is a funeral director and a grief counselor.
The Seattle Times 2011
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"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
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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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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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