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death dirge
(a) Of or relating to death or a death; accompanying or caused by death, as death agony, death dirge, death stroke, death time, etc. See also deathbed n., death blow n., death day n., deathplace n., etc.Corresponding compounds with death's are also attested, esp. in early use (see Compounds 3).
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 308 Manes, deaðas & deaðgodas.
OE Beowulf (2008) 1670 Ic þæt hilt þanan feondum ætferede, fyrendæda wræc, deaðcwealm Denigea, swa hit gedefe wæs.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 18097 All swa..erneþþ all mannkinn Inn hiss dæþshildinesse Fra ȝer to ȝer..Inn till hiss lifess ende.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3164 Ne leouede he noht half his lif þat him ne com his dæd-sih [c1300 Otho deaþ-siþ].
c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) 198 He let hym slo Wiþ so gret deþ-pyne and wo.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) v. l. 1751 Soo sodeynly on-to deth for to falle. Som men wene that deth-fal were myserye.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 78 Þat þe fende haue no power of you yn your deth-tyme.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxci. 1186 By these wordes, Before his death, is not meant a yeare or two, no nor yet a moneth, but at his death time, euen when hee was to die.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 175 He is so plaguie proud, that the death tokens of it, Crie no recouerie. View more context for this quotation
1692 J. Haines Fatal Mistake i. i. 8 That wan-Ness shall not accuse, that Death-Look I'll make ruddy with my Breath.
1746 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. (new ed.) III. 606/1 The unfortunate creature expected her death-stroke as mercy.
1799 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 82 To name Sidney Smith's First Lieutenant to the Death-vacancy of Captain Miller.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab ix. 116 The melancholy winds a death-dirge sung.
1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 475 He gave the death-stab to modern Superstition.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. v. 43 The death-shriek of his agonised father.
1883 A. I. Menken Infelicia 22 The last tremble of the conscious death-agony.
1917 R. J. Farrer On Eaves of World I. iv. 71 The inevitable death-terror impels every human soul.
1963 I. Fleming On Her Majesty's Secret Service xvi. 175 Had Campbell got a death pill, perhaps one of the buttons on his ski-jacket or trousers?
1988 J. C. Bell et al. Zoonoses 145 Virulence is determined by three tests: mean death time of chick embryos, [etc.].
2009 Ireland's Eye Jan. 2/3 Well, she smil'd and chatted gaily, Though we saw in mute despair The hectic brighter daily, And the death-dew on her hair.
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