knelled
Sounded for death
Knelled is the past tense of knell, meaning to ring a bell solemnly, especially to announce a death or funeral.
Church bells knelled when someone died.
Figuratively, something that knelled signaled an end or doom: The announcement knelled the death of the project.
The word is literary and old-fashioned.
Slow, solemn bell-ringing
- funeralService honoring the dead
- mourningPeriod following loss
- graveSerious and worrying
- eulogyTribute for the dead
bereavement · casket · interment · wake · shroud · pallbearer · obituary · demise
Fee for passage
- chimeMelodic bell sound
- pealResonant ringing burst
- clangLoud metallic sound
- bongWater-filtered smoking apparatus
carillon · resonance · reverberation · echo · vibration · sound · bronze · clapper
Gravely serious in mood
- mournfulShowing or feeling grief
- graveSerious and worrying
- reverentFeeling profound respect
- dignifiedComposed and respectable
stately · subdued · pensive · reflective · earnest · sedate · meditative · contemplative
tolling
Slow, solemn bell-ringing
eulogy · bereavement · casket · interment · wake · shroud · pallbearer · obituary · demise · sepulchre
toll
Fee for passage
bong · carillon · resonance · reverberation · echo · vibration · sound · bronze · clapper · belfry
somber
Gravely serious in mood
dignified · stately · subdued · pensive · reflective · earnest · sedate · meditative · contemplative · melancholy
tocsin
Bell rung as warning
announcement · omen · portent · foreboding · harbinger · signal · presage · ill omen
liturgy
Formal worship structure
- cathedralBishop's principal church
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- processionFormal moving line
sanctuary · sacrament · vestments · incense · altar · bishop · chant · ordination · acolyte · censer
knelledbirth
Coming into the world
beginning · start · life · christening · awakening
knelledcelebrated
Widely known and praised
rejoiced · exulted · heralded · trumpeted · proclaimed
- death knellsBells rung for dying