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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Trental  \Tren"tal\,  n.  [LL.  trentale,  fr  L.  triginta  thirty; 
  akin  to  tres  three:  cf  OF  trentel.  See  {Three},  and  cf 
  {Trigintal}.] 
  1.  (R.  C.  Ch.)  An  office  and  mass  for  the  dead  on  the 
  thirtieth  day  after  death  or  burial.  ``Their  trentals  and 
  their  shrifts.''  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  Hence  a  dirge;  an  elegy. 




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