defunction
noun/dəˈfʌŋkʃən/
Etymology from Latin dēfūnctiō (“execution, performance, death”), from dēfungor (“to finish, perform, die”).
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Obsolete Death.
- Until four hundred one-and-twenty years / After defunction of King Pharamond […]1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Derived terms
- defunctioning, defunctive
- Related terms
- defunct