- dirge|ful
- dirge|ful «DURJ fuhl», adjective.= mournful. (Cf. ↑mournful)
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dirgeful — dirge (dûrj) n. 1) Music a) A funeral hymn or lament. b) A slow, mournful musical composition. 2) A mournful or elegiac poem or other literary work. 3) Roman Catholic Church The Office of the Dead. ╂ [Middle English, an antiphon at Matins in the… … Word Histories
Dirgeful — Dirge ful, a. Funereal; moaning. [1913 Webster] Soothed sadly by the dirgeful wind. Coleridge. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
