Defn: Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. Shak. Funeral pile, 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.
FUNERATE Fu"ner*ate, v. t. Etym: [L. funeratus, p. p. of funerare to funerate, fr. funus. See Funeral.]
Defn: To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] Cockeram.
FUNERATION
Fu`ner*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. funeratio.]
Defn: The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.
FUNEREAL
Fu*ne"re*al, a. Etym: [L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral.]
Defn: Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark;
dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor.
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant
lamps. Longfellow.
— Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.
FUNEST Fu*nest", a. Etym: [L. funestus, fr. funus a funeral, destruction: cf. F. funeste.]
Defn: Lamentable; doleful. [R.] "Funest and direful deaths."
Coleridge.
A forerunner of something very funest. Evelyn.
FUNGAL
Fun"gal, a.