Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to funerals; funeral; funereal.

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

  • adjective obsolete Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funereal.

Etymologies

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Latin funebris belonging to a funeral, from funus funeral.

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Examples

  • To desire to keep the old body seems to me to argue a degree of sensual materialism excusable only in those pagans who in their Elysian fields could hope to possess only such a thin, fleeting, dreamy, and altogether funebrial existence, that they might well long for the thicker, more tangible bodily being in which they had experienced the pleasures of a tumultuous life on the upper world.

    Unspoken Sermons Series One 1824-1905 1867

  • To desire to keep the old body seems to me to argue a degree of sensual materialism excusable only in those pagans who in their Elysian fields could hope to possess only such a thin, fleeting, dreamy, and altogether funebrial existence, that they might well long for the thicker, more tangible bodily being in which they had experienced the pleasures of a tumultuous life on the upper world.

    Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864

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