单词 | exequy |
释义 | exequyn. Funeral rites; funeral ceremony; occasionally in sense of ‘funeral train’ or ‘bier’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] officec1300 exequy1382 obsequyc1385 exequy1389 mortuaryc1450 funeral1513 obit1525 funeral honoursa1535 last offices1535 justments1648 pompe funèbre1934 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 74 Þay shul fynden iiij torches, ffor to brenne..at exequises of euery brothir and sistir þat dies. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. viii. 150 He was born to churche and his exequye don. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 50 For sepulturis, or exequies, diriges of þe dead..or oþer sacraments. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccx At this Obite or exequie was his wyfe. 1602 Returne fr. Parnassus (Arb.) i. ii. 11 Carelesse care to preuent his exequy, Scarce deigning to shut vp his dying eye. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 179 Sermon at the Exequy of Joan Queen of Spayne. b. plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] officec1300 exequy1382 obsequyc1385 exequy1389 mortuaryc1450 funeral1513 obit1525 funeral honoursa1535 last offices1535 justments1648 pompe funèbre1934 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Sam. iii. 31 Kittith ȝoure clothis, and beth gird with sackis, and weileth before the exequies [a1425 L.V. heersis, ether dirige] of Abner. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vii. viii. 469 Eftyre þa exeqwyis als fast Til Lwndyn þis ilk Rychard past. ?1484 Will of Margaret Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 384 Xij pore meen..to holde xij torches abowte myn herse..during the exequies and masse of my berying. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 48 The which Body..was layed with solemne Exequies in a fayre Chest made of Stone. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 83 A father following the exequies of his sonne. 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xxii. 37 Exequies to the Dead will but require Seaven daies. 1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 148 There yet remain'd thy Fun'ral Exequies. 1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 182 If [the Choral Bishop] died within the month, his exequies were solemnized with great pomp. 1832 W. Motherwell Midn. Lamp in Poems Thou wilt not die until the morrow bright Has seen thy exequies. 1837 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece IV. xxxii. 272 The festival of Adonis..was celebrated..with the representation of funeral exequies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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