a. [ad. L. exequiāl-is (exsequiāl-is), f. ex(s)equiæ: see EXEQUY.] Of or pertaining to a funeral.
1613. J. Dunster, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. lxxix. 2. The manner of our burial, the exequial pomp [etc.].
1725–6. Pope, Odyss., XXIV. 108. Thetis herself to all our peers proclaims Heroic prizes and exequial games.
1751. Cambridge, Scribleriad, IV. 16. Rites exequial [must] grace his honour’d tomb.
1820. Blackw. Mag., VII. 194. The last book of the Iliad … has supplied a great part of the exequial diction.
1866. F. Hall, in Wilson, trans. Vishṅu-puráṅa, III. 120, note. The former term imports undeserving of exequial offerings.
