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
He had in his fellowship chariots, carts and horsemen, and was a great tourbe and company, and came over Jordan where as they hallowed the exequies by great wailing seven days long.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.
Also I bequeath for two candles to burn at my exequies 30 lbs. of wax.
From Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century by Benson, Edwin
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