Definition of funeral

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Funeral (n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural..

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Sable :: Sable (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
Herse :: Herse (n.) A funeral ceremonial.
Underbearer :: Underbearer (n.) One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall..
Obit :: Obit (n.) A funeral solemnity or office; obsequies.
Funeral :: Funeral (n.) A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.
Principal :: Principal (n.) One of turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and center of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Nenia :: Nenia (n.) A funeral song; an elegy.
Mourner :: Mourner (n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
Eloge :: Eloge (n.) A panegyrical funeral oration.
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
Infuneral :: Infuneral (v. t.) To inter with funeral rites; to bury.
Funebrial :: Funebrial (a.) Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal.
Bierbalk :: Bierbalk (n.) A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals..
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..
Gladiator :: Gladiator (n.) Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement..
Bury :: Bury (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume..
Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators..
Toll :: Toll (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell..
Hearselike :: Hearselike (a.) Suitable to a funeral.
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