a. [ad. late L. fūnerārius, f. fūner-, fūnus: see FUNERAL. Cf. F. funéraire.] Of or pertaining to a funeral or burial.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxiii. 185. Those Funerary and Obsequial Festivals.

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a. 1822.  Shelley, Pr. Wks. (1880), III. 62. It was probably an altar to Bacchus, possibly a funerary urn.

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1866.  Daily Tel., 16 Jan., 7/3. The deciphering of Egyptian funerary rolls.

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1890.  A. B. Edwards, in Century Mag., Jan. XXXIX. 328. The sacred cats … had their funerary bronzes laid beside them in the grave.

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