Definition of funeral

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Funeral (n.) A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.

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Herse :: Herse (n.) A funeral ceremonial.
Oration :: Oration (n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill..
Funeral :: 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..
Pyre :: Pyre (n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt..
Knell :: Knell (n.) The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of, or a sound indicating, the passing away of anything..
Funerate :: Funerate (v. t.) To bury with funeral rites.
Suttee :: Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character..
Keener :: Keener (n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.
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..
Funeral :: Funeral (n.) Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies..
Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Infuneral :: Infuneral (v. t.) To inter with funeral rites; to bury.
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..
Saulie :: Saulie (n.) A hired mourner at a funeral.
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.
Threnode :: Threnode (n.) A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song..
Funeral :: Funeral (n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
Epicede :: Epicede (n.) A funeral song or discourse; an elegy.
Toll :: Toll (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person..
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