Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as epicedian.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Elegiac; funereal.

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  • adjective elegiac; funereal

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Examples

  • When the procession filed out priests perfumed the coffin with incense and sprinkled it with holy water, acolytes bore aloft their flambeaux, and the choir, now seen to be robed in black, sang epicedial hymns.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • When the procession filed out priests perfumed the coffin with incense and sprinkled it with holy water, acolytes bore aloft their flambeaux, and the choir, now seen to be robed in black, sang epicedial hymns.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • When the procession filed out priests perfumed the coffin with incense and sprinkled it with holy water, acolytes bore aloft their flambeaux, and the choir, now seen to be robed in black, sang epicedial hymns.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

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