defunctive

English

Adjective

defunctive (comparative more defunctive, superlative most defunctive)

1. (archaic) funereal
   • 1601, William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle:

     Let the priest in surplice white/That defunctive music can/ Be the death-divining swan/ Lest the requiem lack his right.

   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 13:

     The road was now a black tunnel floored with the impalpable defunctive glare of the sand.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “defunctive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)