funerate means to bury with funeral rites. It carries an Arena rating of 1471, earned across 93 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, funerate ranks #1,083 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #2,486 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #2,723 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #3,173 of 17,131 for Scariest Words.
Why “funerate” is a great word
FUNERATE — [Verb] To bury a corpse with formal funeral rites or ceremonies. From the Latin fūnerātus, the perfect passive participle of fūnerō ("to bury with funeral rites"), from fūnus, fūneris ("funeral, death rites"). First attested in English in 1548. Unlike inter, which denotes the simple act of placing a body in the earth, or inhume, a neutral, technical term for burial, to funerate is to enact the full, sanctioned liturgy of leave-taking. It is the slow tolling of a bell, the scent of turned earth mingling with wilting flowers, and the weight of the first ceremonial clods upon the lid—the formal, public act of transmuting a living breath into an artifact of grief.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fūnerātus, perfect passive participle of fūnerō (“to funerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūnus, fūneris (“a funeral”).
verb
- To bury with funeral rites.e.g.“my desideratum is , to be debonnairly funerated in a feateous requietory” — July 4 1844, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, letter to Lorenzo Altisonant:
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