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Definition of Obsequies

Obsequies
Obsequy Ob"se*quy, n.; pl. Obsequies. [L. obsequiae, pl., funeral rites, fr. obsequi: cf.F. obs[`e]ques. See Obsequent, and cf. Obsequious.] 1. The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural. --Spencer. I will . . . fetch him hence, and solemnly attend, With silent obsequy and funeral train. --Milton I will myself Be the chief mourner at his obsequies. --Dryden. The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family --J. P. Mahaffy. 2. Obsequiousness. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Obsequies
Obsequies Ob"se*quies, n.pl. See Obsequy.

Meaning of Obsequies from wikipedia

- Funerary practices in different cultures A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with...
- of a completely silent musical composition. His Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Great Deaf Man of 1897 consists of 24 blank measures. It predates...
- The Obsequies of an Egyptian Cat, by John Reinhard Weguelin (1886)....
- the UK in 1944. It was published in the US a year later under the title Obsequies at Oxford. Crispin's debut novel, the book contains the first appearance...
- tradition rather than literary relations, and yet all agree that the Obsequies (i.e., the Liber Requiei Mariae) and the Six Books Dormition Apocryphon...
- instruction, the defence of theses, the costume of the professors, and the obsequies of masters and students (expanding upon Robert de Courçon's statutes)...
- October 28, 2016. Thrum, Thomas G., ed. (1918). "Death, Lying-in-State and Obsequies of Queen Liliuokalani". Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1918. Honolulu:...
- 1073 Gregory VII On the death of Alexander II (April 21, 1073), as the obsequies were being performed in the Lateran basilica, there arose a loud outcry...
- the cathedral church, Archbishop of William Bonne-Ame performing the obsequies." Like his uncles Richard, who died earlier, and William Rufus, who died...
- of the lid and along its entire length, is narrated the scene of the Obsequies; the latter is dominated by a complex theory of figures, bordered at each...