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English Dictionary: funeral	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for funeral
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
funeral n a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Funeral \Fu"neral\, a. [LL. funeralis. See {Funeral}, n.] 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"nerally}, adv. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Funeral \Fu"neral\, n. [LL. funeralia, prop. neut. pl. of funeralis of a funeral, fr. L. funus, funeris, funeral: cf. F. fun[82]railles.] 1. The solemn rites used in the disposition of a dead human body, whether such disposition be by interment, burning, or otherwise; esp., the ceremony or solemnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. --Euller. 2. The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment. [bd]The long funerals.[b8] --Pope. 3. A funeral* sermon; -- usually in the plural. [Obs.] Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals. --South.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Funeral Burying was among the Jews the only mode of disposing of corpses (Gen. 23:19; 25:9; 35:8, 9, etc.). The first traces of burning the dead are found in 1 Sam. 31:12. The burning of the body was affixed by the law of Moses as a penalty to certain crimes (Lev. 20:14; 21:9). To leave the dead unburied was regarded with horror (1 Kings 13:22; 14:11; 16:4; 21:24, etc.). In the earliest times of which we have record kinsmen carried their dead to the grave (Gen. 25:9; 35:29; Judg. 16:31), but in later times this was done by others (Amos 6:16). Immediately after decease the body was washed, and then wrapped in a large cloth (Acts 9:37; Matt. 27:59; Mark 15:46). In the case of persons of distinction, aromatics were laid on the folds of the cloth (John 19:39; comp. John 12:7). As a rule the burial (q.v.) took place on the very day of the death (Acts 5:6, 10), and the body was removed to the grave in an open coffin or on a bier (Luke 7:14). After the burial a funeral meal was usually given (2 Sam. 3:35; Jer. 16:5, 7; Hos. 9:4).