Lexicographical Neighbors of Funebral
Literary usage of Funebral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient [sic] Greece by William Mure (1854)
"either the funebral or the epigrammatic, being chiefly martial or patriotic
appeals, often of considerable length, addressed to the poet's fellow-citizens ..."
2. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1862)
"Whether the circles were ever occupied by great mounds of earth in the interior,
whether they were intended for funebral or religious purposes might be ..."
3. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"... sad [former synonymous cog- nate funebral] fio'nii-bzi-al. funeral n. (burial
ceremony; obsequies) 'fiou-na-zal. funereal adj. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"... brought home to one more forcibly than by a visit to the cases in the British
Museum, containing the little funebral figures from the tombs of Tanagra. ..."