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Webster 1913 Edition

Funest

Fu-nest′

,

Adj.

[L.

funestus

, fr.

funus

a funeral, destruction: cf. F.

funeste

.]

Lamentable; doleful.

[R.]

“Funest and direful deaths.”

Coleridge.

A forerunner of something very

funest

.

Evelyn.