Definition of "funerary" []

• Of or suitable for a funeral or burial. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The tomb itself, as already stated, is known in funerary texts as the "House of the Ka"; and as each king on his accession began immediately to build his pyramid or excavate his rock-cut sepulchre, it followed that he was as much interested in providing for the future accommodation of his Ka as in providing for the future accommodation of his mummy."
• "By arranging a selection of one 40 by 40-inch canvas plucked from each series — a Shot Orange Marilyn, a Liz, and a Red Jackie — on the wall of his bedroom at home in the expensive, “five-towns” suburb of Lawrence, Long Island, the collector Leon Kraushar not only compounded the allure of each subject, but by forming a kind of funerary polyptych for the sleek modern boudoir, surely also heightened the varying degrees of frank sexuality Andy applied to the eyes and lips of all three."
• "I dunno, death seems to have a lot of commerce driving it (private armies, the “war machine”, etc.) and a lot of commerce associated with it (funerary businesses, etc.)."