Definition of "feretrum" []

• Same as feretory. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Jupiter Feretrius, from the trophy carried on the feretrum, one of the Greek words which at that time still existed in great numbers in Latin: or, as others say, it is the surname of the Thundering"
• "Sanctum corpus, ac deinde post annorum tempus trecentorum Assyrios abstulisse feretrum cum ipso corpore sancto in Edissam ciuitatem"
• "Now where the women went, I cannot tell: for I finde written, that _populus totius vrbis præcedebat feretrum_; wher _populus_, as I take it, signifieth the whole route of men and women."