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- verb To
officiate at afuneral service for, to hold a funeral service for.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He preferred the simplicity of death in his family—die, funeralize, and let the soul return to God.
Destined Patricia Haley 2010
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Phantom Poet concludes the ISP can distribute every track I own all over the entire world – even outer-space as long as they hurry up a send me a check so I can help funeralize my beloved mama: So long, Betty!
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Phantom Poet concludes the ISP can distribute every track I own all over the entire world–even outer-space as long as they hurry up a send me a check so I can help funeralize my beloved mama: So long, Betty!
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On the contrary, it joined the crowd, and Bartlett denounced it specifically for its bad example, and cited, among its crimes against the language, such inventions as to doxologize and to funeralize.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 2. The Language in the Making Henry Louis 1921
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To funeralize and to missionate, along with consociational, were contributions of the backwoods pulpit; perhaps it also produced hell-roaring and hellion, the latter of which was a favorite of the Mormons and even got into a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher.
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary Henry Louis 1921
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"We cry great tears of pain if we have to funeralize them at the age of 13 or 14 years old," said the Rev. Mark Whitlock of Christ Our Redeemer AME Church.
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories DOUG IRVING 2010
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