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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
funerary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
monument
▪ The square funerary monument was found to contain a series of stelae with inscriptions and five urns.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the funerary procession
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among these the Underworld was the great unknown and was therefore the dominant feature of funerary texts from the Middle Kingdom onwards.
▪ In funerary rites or in cases of houses subject to the intrusions of snakes, this reverse direction is followed by the priest.
▪ Most surviving examples are funerary, often commissioned quickly in response to unexpected death from disease, by no means uncommon in antiquity.
▪ Roman funerary customs; art and mythology; women in classical antiquity.
▪ The funerary archaeologist has to be certain of the differences between desiccation and chemical preservation: embalming.
▪ The square funerary monument was found to contain a series of stelae with inscriptions and five urns.
▪ This eighteenth-century fascination with funerary exactitude was not limited to the distaff side of society.
▪ To the funerary historian the Tor Abbey Jewel is a highly important record.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
funerary

funerary \fu"ner*ar`y\ (f[=u]"n[.a]*r[~e]r`[y^]), adj. of or pertaining to a funeral or to burial of human remains; as, funerary urn.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
funerary

"pertaining to funerals or burials," 1690s, from Late Latin funerarius, from funer-, stem of funus "a funeral" (see funeral (adj.)).

Wiktionary
funerary

a. Of or relating to a funeral.

WordNet
funerary

adj. of or for or relating to a funeral; "funerary urn"

Usage examples of "funerary".

John Vanderson was not and never would be a Kappa, and his wife was hardly the kind to need cutesy notes to remind her of anything whatsoever I doubted alumnae paid dues, although they were likely to be dunned by National on a regular basis right up until the opening strains of the funerary procession.

Instead of interesting the readers, it evidently destroyed even the slightest desire to read the epitaphs, for soon after the funerary cryptography was begun, it was abandoned.

Our funerary jars keep not only our lights and silent hearts, but our wells, deeper than you can imagine, where the subterrane of lost hours, all the deaths that ever were, the deaths on which mankind has built new tenements of flesh and ramparts of stone moving ever upward even as we sink down and down, doused in twilights, bandaged by midnights.

Backman, like Tim Evans and the cremationists of yore, was inspired by a loathing of funerary pomp.

One thing was certain: the fates of Eratosthenes and Hor-ent-yotf were inextricably interwoven, like designs into a funerary shroud.

Izzy was sprung, and all tours of the Giza funerary complex were put on hold.

The little pot was not an essential part of the funerary equipment, like a canopic jar or a sarcophagus.

The previous season de Morgan had uncovered the ruins of the enclosure wall and the funerary chapel next to the pyramid.

Some naked children were dragging a sick monkey around the funerary pole on a string.

The treasuries of the funerary temple were a sore temptation to every predator hi the two kingdoms, and beyond.

Dust devils whirled at the side of the funerary road, whisps of smoke rising in the heat of the night.