Funeralist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A funeral director; one who arranges a funeral, often after preparing a body for it. rare

    "I am not here to fulfil the office of his funeralist, his biographer, or his eulogist. These duties either have been or will be discharged by others. I am here only as the interpreter of his monument."

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"I am not here to fulfil the office of his funeralist, his biographer, or his eulogist. These duties either have been or will be discharged by others. I am here only as the interpreter of his monument."

Etymology

From funeral + -ist.

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funeral director

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