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funeralize

funeralize verb: to officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for.

Verb

funeralize (third-person singular simple present funeralizes, present participle funeralizing, simple past and past participle funeralized)

  1. To officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for.
    • Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize, rather than compliment my congregation.1851, David S. Doggett, Sermon XXII: A New Year's Admonition, in A Collection of Original Sermons (Thomas P. Akers, editor), page 468
    • A gentleman who knew him, speaking of him to an American traveller a few years since, said — "Sir he funeralized every congregation he took charge of."1853 October, Jas. II. Carlisle, “John Foster”, in Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, volume 7, page 516

Examples of funeralize in a sentence

  • "Old Uncle Sambo make a powerful prayer when they funeralized the body."1891, Elizabeth Hyde Botume, “The Colored Women of the South”, in Papers read before the Association for the Advancement of Women, page 32:
  • With Weaver gone this way he could not even be funeralized like a regular somebody.1936, Minnie Hite Moody, Death is a little man, page 202:
  • [...] the preacher-man was weepy- eyed when he funeralized the corpse; [...]1964, Horton Cooper, History of Avery County, North Carolina, page 41:
  • "Two of them were funeralized down there in Robbins, Georgia.1993, George Plimpton, Shadow Box, page 169:

Forms of funeralize

third-person singular presentfuneralizes
present participlefuneralizing
past participlefuneralized
pastfuneralized

Origin of funeralize

From funeral + -ize.

Questions about funeralize

What does funeralize mean?
Funeralize means to officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for.
How do you use funeralize in a sentence?
"Old Uncle Sambo make a powerful prayer when they funeralized the body."
What part of speech is funeralize?
Funeralize is a verb.
What is the past tense of funeralize?
The past tense of funeralize is funeralized.

Words near funeralize in the dictionary

  1. funeral-goers
  2. funeralgoer
  3. funeralgoers
  4. funeralist
  5. funeralists
  6. funeralize
  7. funeralized
  8. funeralizes
  9. funeralizing
  10. funerall
  11. funeralls

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