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To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.

To assign to some function or office. [R.]

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.

view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

Foundation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones…

arily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.

Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

Destitute of funds.

The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [Obs.] [Written also funebral.] Sir T. Browne.

Funebrial. [Obs.]

mnization of interment; obsequies; burial; -- formerly used in the plural. King James his funerals were performed very solemnly in the collegiate church at Westminster. Euller.

To bury with funeral rites. [Obs.] Cockeram.