funeralize

American  

[fyoo-ner-uh-lahyz] / ˈfju nər əˌlaɪz /

especially British, funeralise

verb (used with object)

funeralized, funeralizing

1. to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.

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Etymology

Origin of funeralize

1645–55 for earlier sense; funeral + -ize

Example Sentences

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funeralize funeralizing

Four days after his death, in the shed-1'ke white church at the end of a rutted whiteclay road, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren gathered to funeralize Uncle Row.

From Time Magazine Archive

The funeralizing of a departed kinsman or friend was published from the pulpit.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell

The present generation do not speak of the funeralizing.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell

So long had Dyke Garrett traveled up and down the valley comforting the sick, praying with the dying, funeralizing the dead.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell

After a general handshaking and repeated farewells and the avowed hope of meeting again come the second Sunday in May next year, the funeralizing ended.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell

So the custom of funeralizing the dead long after burial grew from a necessity.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell