defunctive
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There in orphic rapture he touches a dark string in his nature, and a rich defunctive music rises to the page: Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear Sparkling armada of promises draw near .
From Time Magazine Archive
The lane went back to a barred gate, became defunctive in grass, a mere path scarred quietly into new grass.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Let the priest in surplice white That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And once more, in “The Phœnix and Turtle:” “Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can, Be the death-divining swan, Lest the requiem lack his right.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
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