- plural of exequy.
exequies
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of exequies
C14: from Latin exequiae (plural) funeral procession, rites, from exequī to follow to the end, from sequī to follow
Example Sentences
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The exequies over the body were as solemn as they were premature; dust devils of argument spun through art magazines, scattering the ashes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even allowing for the high rhetorical tint required of such exequies 150 years ago, it's hard to think of an American artist whose death, tomorrow, would inspire such sentiments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their exequies are thus freed from the artificial, grotesque, and pagan horror given by obscene mutes, frightful hearse, horses, and feathers.
From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George
Then, after all these solemn exequies, We will our rites 318 of marriage solemnize.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Marlowe, Christopher
These when a funeral happeneth, make vnto him that is doer for the deade, an estimate of the exequies in writing, whiche the doer may at his pleasure enlarge or make lesse.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Hakluyt, Richard
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