funeral

Definitions

1. A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased
2. A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
3. A funeral sermon
4. A funeral sermon.
   dated, in-plural
5. Alternative spelling of funereal

Equivalents

Examples

“Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay⟳ homage.”

“The taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Perſons muſt be taken to Heart, APPLIED IN A SERMON AT THE FUNERALLS OF Mʳⁱˢ ANNE-MARY CHILD. Wife of THOMAS CHILD Eſq. of North-wick in the Pariſh of Blockley. Worceſter-ſhire.[…]TO THE Exemplarily Vertuous Gentle-woman, his much honoured friend, Mʳˢ ANNE CHILD, Eldeſt daughter of THOMAS CHILD of Northwicke Eſquire. AS I mean⟳ not an exerciſe for your modeſty by a flattering Epiſtle, ſo neither doe I intend⟳ the renewing of your ſorrows, by preſenting you with the plaine Sermon preach’t at the funerals of your bleſſed Mother.”

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