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Officiate vs Funeralize - What's the difference?

officiate | funeralize |

As verbs the difference between officiate and funeralize

is that officiate is (transitive) to perform the functions of some office while funeralize is to officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for.

officiate

English

Verb

(officiat)
  • (transitive) To perform the functions of some office.
    • She officiated as registrar at the wedding.
    She officiated the wedding as registrar.
  • (intransitive, transitive, sports) To serve as umpire or referee.
    • This is the second time he has officiated at a cup-final.
    He's never officiated a cup-final before.

    Related terms

    * office * officer * official

    funeralize

    English

    Verb

    (funeraliz)
  • To officiate at a funeral service for, to hold a funeral service for.
  • * 1851 , David S. Doggett, Sermon XXII: A New Year's Admonition'', in ''A Collection of Original Sermons (Thomas P. Akers, editor), page 468:
    • Pardon me, for yielding to a temporary impulse of this character, at the hazard of seeming to funeralize , rather than compliment my congregation.
  • * 1853 October, Jas. II. Carlisle, John Foster'', in the ''Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South , volume 7, page 516:
    • A gentleman who knew him, speaking of him to an American traveller a few years since, said — "Sir he funeralized every congregation he took charge of."
  • * 1891 , Elizabeth Hyde Botume, The Colored Women of the South'', in the ''Papers read before the Association for the Advancement of Women , page 32:
    • "Old Uncle Sambo make a powerful prayer when they funeralized the body."
  • * 1936 , Minnie Hite Moody, Death is a little man , page 202:
    • With Weaver gone this way he could not even be funeralized' like a regular somebody. Big Young had been ' funeralized the properest that Eenie had ever seen, with a fine motor hearse of light purple color, and coffin-bearers with pure.
  • * 1964 , Horton Cooper, History of Avery County, North Carolina , page 41:
    • [...] the preacher-man was weepy- eyed when he funeralized the corpse; [...]
  • * 1993 , George Plimpton, Shadow Box , page 169:
    • "Two of them were funeralized' down there in Robbins, Georgia. I reckon they got them all." "' Funeralized? " "That's right," he said in his soft voice. "They never should have fooled around with that crowd."