a. Obs. Also funebrous. [f. as prec. + -OUS. With funebrous cf. OF. funebreux.] = prec.

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1653.  Sir G. Wharton, Disc. Comets, Wks. (1683), 159. Comets are certain Funebrious Appearances.

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1654.  Cokaine, Dianea, III. 217. At so funebrous a spectacle I could not refraine from griefe.

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1669.  R. B., Life T. Morton, Pref. 16. Funebrious sickness of the plague.

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1708.  Ozell, trans. Boileau’s Lutrin, iii. 42. Here Ravens and Funebrous Birds resort.

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1721.  Bailey, Funebrous. [In mod. Dicts.]

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