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Definition of Funerals
1. funeral [n] - See also: funeral
Lexicographical Neighbors of Funerals
Literary usage of Funerals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"TORCHES AND LIGHTS AT funerals. THE custom of using torches and lights at funerals,
... 7 : " Among the Romans public funerals were celebrated in the day ..."
2. A Portraiture of Quakerism: Taken from a View of the Moral Education by Thomas Clarkson (1808)
"SECTION I. funerals—Most nations have paid extravagant attention to their dead—The
moderns follow their example—This extravagance, or the pageantry of ..."
3. Social Life in Old New England by Mary Caroline Crawford (1915)
"CHAPTER XIII funerals AS FESTIVALS JUST as the Puritans gave parties when their
children were born, — brewing " groaning beare " and baking " groaning cakes ..."
4. The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving (1906)
"MONG the beautiful and simple-hearted customs of rural life which still linger
in some parts of England, are those of strewing flowers before the funerals, ..."
5. Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1841)
"DOLES were used at funerals, as we learn from St. Chrysostom, to procure rest to
the soul of the deceased, that he might find his ..."
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