Relating to, connected with, or accompanying death. Obsolete.

Of or belonging to death. Obsolete.

Involving loss of the head or life. Of a criminal case, sentence, verdict, etc.: involving the death penalty. See also capital punishment n. at…

Of, concerned with, or depending upon death; relating to or reminiscent of death. Now rare.

General attributive, as parting blow, parting kiss, parting look, etc.

Of, pertaining or relating to a dead person, animal, plant, etc., or to some one's death.

Of or pertaining to defunction or dying. Also, becoming defunct; dying.

Of or pertaining to death.

literary. Of or relating to death; associated with death.

Of the nature or appearance of death; associated with death; = deathly, adj. 3.