defunction

• IPA^(key): /dəˈfʌŋkʃən/

defunction (countable and uncountable, plural defunctions)

1. (obsolete) Death.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Until four hundred one-and-twenty years / After defunction of King Pharamond […]

• See also Thesaurus:death

• existence, life
• birth

• defunct

• “defunction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• functioned