Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as funebrial.

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Examples

  • Vermont and New Hampshire, funebral and andante in the fogs of

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

  • Breeders’ Union, the Guild of Merchants of the Staple et, a.u.c. to present unto him with funebral pomp, over and above that, a stone slab with the usual Mac Pelah address of velediction, a very fair-worded instance of falsemeaning adamelegy: We have done ours gohellt with you, Heer Herewhippit, overgiven it, skidoo!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • To conclude with the uses of fir, we have most of our pot-ashes of this wood, together with torch, or funebral-staves; nay, and of old, spears of it, if we may credit Virgil’s Amazonian combat,

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

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