a. Now rare. Also 7 funebriall, 7–8 funebral. [f. L. fūnebri-s (f. fūnus funeral) + -AL.] Of or pertaining to funerals, funereal. Hence, gloomy, sad, melancholy.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, v. § 2. 163. What are funebriall accents, but ruthful lamentations for our friends eclipsed?
1645. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 174. Here I heard a Spanish sermon, or funebral oration. Ibid. (1664), Sylva (1776), 291. We have most of our pot-ashes of this wood [Fir], together with the torch, or funebral staves; nay, and of old spears of it, if we may credit Virgil’s Amazonian Combat.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Tracts (1684), ii. 91. Their funebrial Garlands had little of beauty in them beside Roses.
1790. Pennant, London (1813), 507. A shroud … he dressed himself in that funebrial habit.
1830. Southey, Lett., 10 July, in Life & Corr., VI. 108. An air of book-making … which is not lessened by the funebrial verses that it contains.
1865. L’Estrange, Yachting round W. Eng., 100. By some they are considered to have been funebrial, and originally covered with mounds of earth.
1866. G. Macdonald, Unspoken Serm. (1884), 237. Those pagans who in their Elysian fields could hope to possess only such a thin, fleeting, dreamy, and altogether funebrial existence.
