All 5 Uses of
defunct
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- It was then queried whether there were any special desires on the part of the defunct and the reply was: We greet you, friends of earth, who are still in the body.†
Chpt 12
- It was ascertained that the reference was to Mr Cornelius Kelleher, manager of Messrs H. J. O'Neill's popular funeral establishment, a personal friend of the defunct, who had been responsible for the carrying out of the interment arrangements.†
Chpt 12
- A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!†
Chpt 14 *
- Now I am defunct, the wall of the heart hypertrophied.†
Chpt 15
- Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay), Philip Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis, Mater Misericordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(defunct) no longer in force; or having ceased to exist or live