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, 1985, p.13:

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