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<p><b>3.</b> <def>A funeral sermon; -- usually in the plural.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his <b>funerals</b>. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Funeral</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fu"ner*al</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>funeralis</ets>. See <er>Funeral</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead; <as>as, <ex>funeral</ex> rites, honors, or ceremonies</as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>Funeral pile</col>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

-- <wordforms><wf>Fu"ner*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark></wordforms>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Funerate</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fu"ner*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>funeratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>funerare</ets> to funerate, fr. <ets>funus</ets>. See <er>Funeral</er>.]</ety> <def>To bury with funeral rites.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Cockeram.</i>

<h1>Funeration</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fu`ner*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>funeratio</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of burying with funeral rites.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Knatchbull.</i>

<h1>Funereal</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fu*ne"re*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>funereus</ets>, fr. <ets>fentus</ets> a funeral.]</ety> <def>Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.</def>

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<blockquote>What seem to us but sad <b>funereal</b> tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. <i>Longfellow.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>Fu*ne"re*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Funest</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fu*nest"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>funestus</ets>, fr. <ets>funus</ets> a funeral, destruction: cf. F. <ets>funeste</ets>.]</ety> <def>Lamentable; doleful.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "<i>Funest</i> and direful deaths."

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<blockquote>A forerunner of something very <b>funest</b>. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fungal</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fun"gal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to fungi.</def>

<h1>Fungate</h1> <Xpage=603>

<hw>Fun"gate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fongate</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A salt of fungic acid.</def> <altsp>[Formerly written also <asp>fungiate</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Funge</h1> <Xpage=603>