Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
crants | (Shakesp.) the garland carried before the bier of a maiden and hung over her grave. |
exequial | of or pertaining to funerals. |
exequy | funeral rites. |
funebral | of or pertaining to a funeral. |
funebrial | of or pertaining to a funeral. |
funeral | a ceremony held for a dead person. |
funerary | pertaining to or suiting a funeral. |
gumphion | (Scots) a kind of banner formerly carried in a funeral procession. |
inferiae | (Lat.) offerings to the spirits of the dead. |
kurdaitcha | (Aborig.) in certain Central Australian aboriginal tribes, a man with the mission of avenging the death of a tribesman. |
latewake | an erroneous form of lykewake, a watch over a corpse. |
lichwake | a watch over a corpse. |
likewake | a watch over a corpse. |
likewalk | a watch over a corpse. |
lykewake | a watch over a corpse. |
lykewalk | a watch over a corpse. |
obsequial | (Shakesp.) relating to obsequies, funerals. |
obsequie | (Milton) a funeral rite. |
obsequy | a funeral rite. |
sati | (Sanskrit) the act of a Hindu widow willingly being cremated on the funeral pyre of her husband. |
seppuku | (Japanese) a form of ritual suicide by cutting open the stomach. |
suttee | (Sanksrit) the act of a Hindu widow willingly being cremated on the funeral pyre of her husband. |
sutteeism | the Indian practice of self-immolation of widows. |
tangi | (Maori) a ceremony of mourning. |