defunctive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Archaic

"Let the priest in surplice white/That defunctive music can/ Be the death-divining swan/ Lest the requiem lack his right."
"The road was now a black tunnel floored with the impalpable defunctive glare of the sand."

From Latin defunctivus, from dēfūnctiō (“execution, performance, death”), from dēfungor (“to finish, perform, die”).

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defunction

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