a. [f. as prec. + -ARY2.: cf. F. tumulaire (1835 in Dict. Acad.).]
1. Pertaining to or placed over a tomb; sepulchral.
1758. Monthly Rev., 160. Adapted to the … tumulary style.
1834. L. Ritchie, Wand. by Seine, 97. On some prostrate tumulary stone.
1869. Mrs. Palliser, Brittany, 194. The pavement [of the church] is covered with tumulary stones.
2. = TUMULAR.
1860. W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. iv. 55. The sea so blue and bright, bounded by red tumulary cliffs.
