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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Latin
Origin: mors ( MORTAL1) + English -ician

mortician

 noun
     
Related topics: Occupations, Death
mor‧ti‧cian [countable] American English
BOMX someone whose job is to arrange funerals and prepare bodies to be buried [= undertaker British English]
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