committal service

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   service committing a body to the grave

   “the committal service will be held next Monday”

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Questions about committal service

What does committal service mean?

committal service means "service committing a body to the grave".

Is committal service a common word?

committal service is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.