defunctive

Example Sentences

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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

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

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

From The Phoenix and the Turtle by Shakespeare, William