funeralize

present singular third person funeralizes · participle present funeralizing · participle past funeralized · past funeralized

1. To officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for.

   "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

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   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

   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.

   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. 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."

   1993, George Plimpton, Shadow Box, page 169