Defunctive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    funereal or deathly archaic

    "Let the priest in surplice white/That defunctive music can/ Be the death-divining swan/ Lest the requiem lack his right."

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"Let the priest in surplice white/That defunctive music can/ Be the death-divining swan/ Lest the requiem lack his right."

Etymology

From Latin defunctivus, from dēfūnctiō (“execution, performance, death”), from dēfungor (“to finish, perform, die”).

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