>[!fas-infobox] >&nbsp; >![[mortuarium img.webp|cover portrait]] <center><span class="lheading">Mirstone Mortuarium</span></center> >[!note|no-title accent] >#### Morgue ><div class="quote">A small morgue just outside the Sanatorium and by the graveyard.</div> >[!cite|no-title] >### About >a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal. > >The term _mortuary_ dates from the early 35th century, from Anglo-Fortumian _mortuarie_, meaning "gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner," from Medieval Cictesh mortuarium, noun use of neuter of Late Cictesh adjective mortuarius "pertaining to the dead," from Cictesh _mortuus_, pp. of _mori_ "to die". > >The meaning of "place where the deceased are kept temporarily" was first recorded in 4201, as a euphemism for the earlier Gathic term "deadhouse".