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funebrial, a. Now rare.|fjuːˈniːbrɪəl|
Also 7 funebriall, 7–8 funebral.
[f. L. fūnebri-s (f. fūnus funeral) + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to funerals, funereal. Hence, gloomy, sad, melancholy.
1604T. Wright Passions v. §2. 163 What are funebriall accents, but ruthful lamentations for our friends eclipsed? 1645Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 174 Here I heard a Spanish sermon, or funebral oration. 1664― Sylva (1776) 291 We have most of our pot-ashes of this wood together with the torch or Funebral Staves. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1684) 91 Their funebrial Garlands had little of beauty in them beside Roses. 1790Pennant London (1813) 507 A shroud..he dressed himself in that funebrial habit. 1830Southey Let. 10 July in Life & Corr. VI. 108 An air of book-making..which is not lessened by the funebrial verses that it contains. 1865L'Estrange Yachting round W. Eng. 100 By some they are considered to have been funebrial, and originally covered with mounds of earth. 1866G. Macdonald Unspoken Serm. (1884) 237 Those pagans who in their Elysian fields could hope to possess only such a thin, fleeting, dreamy, and altogether funebrial existence. |