Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the dead; funereal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Funereal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
funereal
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Examples
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A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!
Ulysses 2003
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At "sole Arabian tree" he started; at "thou shrieking harbinger" he smiled with sudden pleasure; at "every fowl of tyrant wing" the blood rushed up into his cheeks; but at "defunctive music" he turned pale and trembled with an unprecedented emotion.
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932
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A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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