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exequy now always in pl. exequies.|ˈɛksɪkwɪ, ˈɛksɪkwɪz|
Forms: α. sing. 5–7 exequie, -y, 7, exquie. β. pl. (4 exequises, exeqwyis, exquies) 6 exequeis, 4– exequies.
[a. OF. exequies, exeques = Pr. ex(s)equias, a. L. ex(s)equiās, acc. of exsequiæ pl., lit. ‘train of followers’, f. exsequī to follow out, follow to the grave (see execute). The OF. word, on adoption into English, was treated partly as a sing. (cf. pl. form exequises), and partly as a pl.; from the latter of which the sing. exequy was afterwards developed.]
Funeral rites; funeral ceremony; occas. in sense of ‘funeral train’ or ‘bier’. †a. sing.; with pl. in sense ‘funerals’. Obs.
1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 74 Þay shul fynden iiij torches, ffor to brenne..at exequises of euery brothir and sistir þat dies. c1400Apol. Loll. 50 For sepulturis, or exequies, diriges of þe dead..or oþer sacraments. 1474Caxton Chesse 130 He was borne to chirche and his exequye doon. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 210 At this Obite or Exequie was his wyfe. 1602Return fr. Parnass. i. ii. (Arb.) 11 Carelesse care to preuent his exequy, Scarce deigning to shut vp his dying eye. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 179 Sermon at the Exequy of Joan Queen of Spayne.
b. pl.
1382Wyclif 2 Sam. iii. 31 Kittith ȝoure clothis, and beth gird with sackis, and weileth before the exequies [1388 heersis, ether dirige] of Abner. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. viii. 469 Eftyre þa exeqwyis als fast Til Lwndyn þis ilk Rychard past. 1482Paston Lett. No. 861 III. 282 Xij pore meen..to holde xij torches abowte myn herse..during the exequies and masse of my berying. 1538Leland Itin. IV. 64 The which Body..was layed with solemne Exequies in a fayre Chest made of Stone. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 83 A father following the exequies of his sonne. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xxii. 37 Exequies to the Dead will but require Seaven daies. 1700Dryden Fables, Sigismonda & G. 661 There yet remained thy funeral exequies. 1771Antiq. Sarisb. 182 If [the Choral Bishop] died within the month, his exequies were solemnized with great pomp. 1832Motherwell Poems, Midn. Lamp, Thou wilt not die until the morrow bright Has seen thy exequies. 1837Thirlwall Greece IV. xxxii. 272 The festival of Adonis..was celebrated..with the representation of funeral exequies.
⁋An alleged sense, ‘a funeral ode’, has been wrongly inferred from the title of a poem ‘The Exequy’ in Bp. H. King Poems (1657) 52. |