defunctive
adjEtymology From Latin defunctivus, from dēfūnctiō (“execution, performance, death”), from dēfungor (“to finish, perform, die”).
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Archaic funereal or deathly
- Let the priest in surplice white/That defunctive music can/ Be the death-divining swan/ Lest the requiem lack his right.1601, William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle:
- The road was now a black tunnel floored with the impalpable defunctive glare of the sand.1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 13:
- Related terms
- defunction