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adj
Alternative spelling of funereal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable, uncommon, usually
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noun
A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A funeral sermon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, in-plural
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noun
a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance
Narrower terms: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture, sky burial
History
Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dhew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437. Displaced native Old English līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”).
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