necrologicadj.

1796 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 21 497 The necrologic table of the men of letters or artists whom Rome could muster.

1804 W. Taylor in Crit. Rev. 3 559 The remarkable deaths..continue to be recorded in this necrologic almanac.

1861 Harper's Mag. Jan. 273/2 Sir Harry Smith, who belongs to the later necrologic lists—a brave man.

1887 Cent. Mag. May 29/2 My countrymen have recently displayed a great access of necrologic zeal. Some Philadelphians have made a determined effort to get possession of the body of William Penn.

1925 T. Hardy Human Shows 4 Do they know me, whose former mind Was like an open plain where no foot falls, But now is as a gallery portrait-lined, And scored with necrologic scrawls?

1965 T. Walker Fox on Barn Door 28 You have teeth like the spikes on a barrel-organ drum: That necrologic gape closed its horny doors of knives On the hebete like the Iron Maid of Nuremberg.