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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