单词 | exequial |
释义 | exequialadj. Of or pertaining to a funeral. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [adjective] > of or relating to funeral funeralc1405 funebral1581 funereal1598 funebrial1604 necial1606 exequial1613 funebrious1630 funebrous1654 funerary1661 feral1881 1613 J. Dunster in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1874) IV. Ps. lxxix. 2 The manner of our burial, the exequial pomp, etc. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiv. 108 Thetis herself to all our peers proclaims Heroic prizes and exequial games. 1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad iv. 16 Rites exequial [must] grace his honour'd tomb. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 194 The last book of the Iliad..has supplied a great part of the exequial diction. 1866 F. Hall in H. H. Wilson tr. Vishṅu Puráṅa III. 120 (note) The former term imports undeserving of exequial offerings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1613 |
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