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
The tragick pomp of his sad exequies, And deadly burning torches are at hand, I must accompany the mornefull troope: And sacryfice my teares to the Gods below.
From The Tragedy Of Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
More serious conjectures find some examples of sepulture in elephants, cranes, the sepul- chral cells of pismires, and practice of bees,—which civil society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
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 Edwin Benson
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