funeral

5 definitions found

funeral - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Funeral \Fu"ner*al\, a. [LL. funeralis. See Funeral, n.]
     Pertaining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead;
     as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. --Shak.
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     Funeral pile or Funeral pyre, a structure of combustible
        material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced
        to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre. --
        Fu"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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  Funeral \Fu"ner*al\ (f[=u]"n[~e]r*al), n. [LL. funeralia, prop.
     neut. pl. of funeralis of a funeral, fr. L. funus, funeris,
     funeral: cf. F. fun['e]railles.]
     1. 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.
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              King James his funerals were performed very solemnly
              in the collegiate church at Westminster. --Euller.
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     2. The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show
        and accompaniments of an interment. "The long funerals."
        --Pope.
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     3. A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural. [Obs.]
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              Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals. --South.
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funeral - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  funeral
      n 1: a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated;
           "hundreds of people attended his funeral"

funeral - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Funeral
  Burying was among the Jews the only mode of disposing of corpses
  (Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 35:8, 9, etc.).
  
    The first traces of burning the dead are found in 1 Sam.
  31:12. The burning of the body was affixed by the law of Moses
  as a penalty to certain crimes (Lev. 20:14; 21:9).
  
    To leave the dead unburied was regarded with horror (1 Kings
  13:22; 14:11; 16:4; 21:24, etc.).
  
    In the earliest times of which we have record kinsmen carried
  their dead to the grave (Gen. 25:9; 35:29; Judg. 16:31), but in
  later times this was done by others (Amos 6:16).
  
    Immediately after decease the body was washed, and then
  wrapped in a large cloth (Acts 9:37; Matt. 27:59; Mark 15:46).
  In the case of persons of distinction, aromatics were laid on
  the folds of the cloth (John 19:39; comp. John 12:7).
  
    As a rule the burial (q.v.) took place on the very day of the
  death (Acts 5:6, 10), and the body was removed to the grave in
  an open coffin or on a bier (Luke 7:14). After the burial a
  funeral meal was usually given (2 Sam. 3:35; Jer. 16:5, 7; Hos.
  9:4).

funeral - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "funeral":
     burial, burial at sea, burying, caravan, cavalcade, cinerary,
     column, cortege, cremation, dead march, deep six, dirge, dirgelike,
     dismal, dress parade, entombment, epitaphic, exequial, exequies,
     feral, flyover, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous,
     funeral procession, funerary, funereal, inhumation, interment,
     last post, line, march past, mortuary, motorcade, mournful,
     muffled drum, mule train, necrological, obituary, obsequial,
     obsequies, pack train, parade, pomp, procession, promenade, review,
     sepulchral, sepulture, skimmington, stream, string, taps, train