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Definition of Dirgeful
1. a. Funereal; moaning.
Definition of Dirgeful
1. Adjective. having the qualities of a dirge; moaning ¹
2. Adjective. funereal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dirgeful
1. dirge [adj] - See also: dirge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirgeful
Literary usage of Dirgeful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: With a Metrical Translation and Notes Critical by Aeschylus, Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1882)
"700 (659) but, learning a new dirgeful hymn, Priam's old town, I ween, with
groanings loud its Paris ill-wived calls, yea, having first a ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"... entails “seven years' trouble, but no want;' that the dirgeful singing of
children portends a funeral. There is scarcely a sensation but has its meaning ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"And dirgeful, last and first, That presence softly brooding, for an hour, Seemed
to the town a trance As of the waves at rest, A jewel smiling there on ..."
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