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dėfŭnct’, a. Dead (the ~, way of mentioning a particular dead person), no longer existing. [f. L DE(functus p.p. of fungi perform) dead] The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English. Edited by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, based on The Oxford Dictionary. Fifth edition (1964). Revised by E. McIntosh. Reprint 1972.