Relating to a funeral.She appointed him to perform her exequial rites, setting aside her daughter....
The offender is considered to be dead, and Hindu Law directs the performance of exequial ceremonies for him, as if he were naturally so.
The procession was a half mile long numbering nearly a hundred carriages aud was preceded by a military band which discoursed exequial music from the church to the cemetery.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin exsequialis, from exsequiae 'funeral ceremonies', from exsequi 'to follow after': see -al.