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defunct, a. and n.|dɪˈfʌŋkt|
[ad. L. dēfunct-us discharged, deceased, dead, pa. pple. of dēfungī to discharge, have done with, f. de- I. 6 + fungī to perform, discharge (duty). Perh. immed. a. F. defunct (Cotgr. 1611), now défunt.]
A. adj. Having ceased to live; deceased, dead.
[1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. ii. (1495) 187 A deed body is callyd Defunctus, for he hath lefte the offyce of lyfe.] 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 21 The Organs, though defunct and dead before, Breake vp their drowsie Graue. 1603Jas. I in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 65 To do that and all other honnor that we may unto the Queene defunct. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. x. § 5. 42 The anatomy is of a defunct patient. 1694Lond. Gaz. No. 2981/3 Two defunct Knights of the Order. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xx, Now, Simon..what was the purport of the defunct Oliver Proudfute's discourse with you? 1872Baker Nile Tribut. xx. 341 The stock in trade of a defunct doctor.
b. fig. No longer in existence; having ceased its functions; dead, extinct.
1741Love of Fame (ed. 4) 74 Defunct by Phœbus' laws, beyond redress. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) II. 20 This ghost of a defunct absurdity. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 24 It appeared, some months ago, in a defunct periodical. 1878Stewart & Tait Unseen Univ. iii. §115 Due to the crashing together of defunct suns.
B. n. the defunct: the deceased; hence, with pl. (rare), one who is dead, a dead person.
1548Hall Chron. Hen. VIII, an. 1 (R.) The corps of the said defunct [the late kyng] was brought..into the great chamber. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 358 Nature doth abhorre to make his bed With the defunct, or sleepe upon the dead. 1663Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) I. 479 The..hors-litter..where was the defunct, drawne by six horses. 1715M. Davies Ath. Brit. I. 143 Those two great Episcopal Defuncts. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 217 Knavish priests, who pretended that the devil could have no power over the defunct, if he was interred in holy ground. 1828Landor Imag. Convers. III. 392 Indifferent whether the pace with which the defunct are carried to the grave be quick or slow. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 251 Accosting a servant..he demanded the name of the defunct. 1888H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition I. 391 A sentence condemning five defuncts. |