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‖ requiescat|rɛkwɪˈɛskæt|
[L., the first word of requiescat in pace ‘may he (or she) rest in peace’.]
A wish for the repose of the dead.
1824J. H. Wiffen Tasso iii. lxxii, Many a tuneful tongue Sweet in the solemn march his requiescat sung. 1852Thackeray Esmond ii. xiii, A thousand such hillocks lay round about..each bearing its cross and requiescat. 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile i. vi, That emotion! I bury it here by the sea,..And a heart's requiescat I write on that grave. |