Funeral
['fjuːn(ə)r(ə)l] or ['fjunərəl]
Definition
(noun.) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; 'hundreds of people attended his funeral'.
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Definition
(n.) The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural.
(n.) The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment.
(n.) A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Burial, interment.[2]. Obsequies, exequies, funeral solemnities, funeral rites.
Typist: Lycurgus
Definition
n. burial: the ceremony &c. connected with burial.—adj. pertaining to or used at a burial.—adjs. Funēb′rial Funēb′ral Funēb′rious; Fū′nerary Funēr′eal pertaining to or suiting a funeral: dismal: mournful.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a funeral, denotes an unhappy marriage and sickly offspring. To dream of the funeral of a stranger, denotes unexpected worries. To see the funeral of your child, may denote the health of your family, but very grave disappointments may follow from a friendly source. To attend a funeral in black, foretells an early widowhood. To dream of the funeral of any relative, denotes nervous troubles and family worries.
Typist: Nora
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
Editor: Warren
Examples
- He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- A great crowd assembles in Lincoln's Inn Fields on the day of the funeral. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then she took Dora's arm in hers, and marched us into breakfast as if it were a soldier's funeral. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It might have been mere chance, but so it was that Margaret never heard that he had attended her poor mother's funeral. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There is the fact of the funeral at Limmeridge, and there is the assertion of the inscription on the tomb. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He feared us so much--and with reason--that he caused himself to be represented as dead, and had a grand mock-funeral. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I tell you, he's a regular hearse for blackness and sobriety, and will drive you like a funeral, if you want. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Will Haught at this moment brought in my breakfaSt. Do you know anything about this funeral, or that poor young female who has just followed it? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- For my part I like a good hearty funeral as well as anything. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Among the chief pleasures of the Catholic monarch between meals during this time of retirement were funeral services. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The event in question was none other than the death of his father, and Maurice, as in duty bound, came down to the funeral. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- St. Clare was a good deal affected at the sight of it; the little book had been rolled in a long strip of black crape, torn from the funeral weeds. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- On the twelfth day he was placed on the funeral pyre and there he came to life again, and told what he had seen in the world below. Plato. The Republic.
- It was tolling for the funeral service. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I will go anywhere with you, Mrs. Cadwallader, Celia had said; but I don't like funerals. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He would have no RAISON D'ETRE if there were no lugubrious miseries in the world, as an undertaker would have no meaning if there were no funerals. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It makes one think of funerals and death. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And now, he added, I must away; for Sweeting is off to see his mother, and there are two funerals. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Undertakers let the furniture of funerals by the day and by the week. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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