Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TREN'TAL, or TREN'TALS
TREN'TAL, or TREN'TALS, n. [Fr. trente, thirty; contracted from L. triginta, It. trenta.]
An office for the dead in the Spanish service, consisting of thirty masses rehearsed for thirty days successively after the party's death. Cyc.
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