funeral

UK /ˈfjuː.nə.ɹəl/ US /ˈfju.nə.ɹəl/
noun 2adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.

Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.

The taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Perſons muſt be taken to Heart, APPLIED IN A SERMON AT THE FUNERALLS OF Mʳⁱˢ ANNE-MARY CHILD. Wife of THOMAS CHILD Eſq. of North-wick in the Pariſh of Blockley. Worceſter-ſhire.[…]TO THE Exemplarily Vertuous Gentle-woman, his much honoured friend, Mʳˢ ANNE CHILD, Eldeſt daughter of THOMAS CHILD of Northwicke Eſquire. AS I mean not an exerciſe for your modeſty by a flattering Epiſtle, ſo neither doe I intend the renewing of your ſorrows, by preſenting you with the plaine Sermon preach’t at the funerals of your bleſſed Mother.

2

A funeral sermon.

adj

1

Alternative spelling of funereal.

All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.

Indeed I felt it altogether beautiful; and, as the "dying day-hymn stole aloft," the dim sun-beams fell, through a vista of naked motionless trees, upon the coffin, which was borne with a slower and more funeral pace than before, in a manner that threw a solemn and visionary light upon the whole procession.

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