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動詞

funeralize (三人称単数 現在形 funeralizes, 現在分詞 funeralizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 funeralized)

1. To officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for.
   • 1851, David S. Doggett, Sermon XXII: A New Year's Admonition, in A Collection of Original Sermons (Thomas P. Akers, editor), page 468:

     Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize, rather than compliment my congregation.

   • 1853 October, Jas. II. Carlisle, John Foster, in the Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, volume 7, page 516:

     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."

   • 1891, Elizabeth Hyde Botume, The Colored Women of the South, in the Papers read before the Association for the Advancement of Women, page 32:

     "Old Uncle Sambo make a powerful prayer when they funeralized the body."

   • 1936, Minnie Hite Moody, Death is a little man, page 202:

     With Weaver gone this way he could not even be funeralized like a regular somebody. Big Young had been funeralized the properest that Eenie had ever seen, with a fine motor hearse of light purple color, and coffin-bearers with pure.

   • 1964, Horton Cooper, History of Avery County, North Carolina, page 41:

     [...] the preacher-man was weepy- eyed when he funeralized the corpse; [...]

   • 1993, George Plimpton, Shadow Box, page 169:

     "Two of them were funeralized down there in Robbins, Georgia. I reckon they got them all." "Funeralized?" "That's right," he said in his soft voice. "They never should have fooled around with that crowd."