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Obsequy

//ˈɔbsɪ.kwiː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The last office for the dead.
  2. 2
    a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated wordnet
  3. 3
    A funeral rite or service. in-plural

    "And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes yͭ were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe."

Etymology

From Middle English obseque, from Old French obseque, osseque, from Latin obsequiī (“complaisant, yielding”), alteration of obsequia (“compliance”) (by confusion, in association with exsequia (“funeral rites”), from exsequī (“follow or accompany to the grave”)).

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