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1583 Serm. Christes Death 10/1 in A. Marten tr. P. M. Vermigli Common Places These women worshipped him while he liued: also they meant to do him the last honours, when he was deade.

1610 T. Owen tr. P. Coton in T. Owen tr. Let. Catholike Man 8 That precious gage, and remarkable pledge [sc. Henry IV of France's heart],..to the which the Chiefe Lords of France rendred the last honours.

1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries 57 Doing him his last honour.

1790 J. Bruce Trav. Source Nile II. iv. 401 As soon as the prince Facilidas had paid the last honours to his father.

1828 G. Croly Salathiel (ed. 2) III. xvii. 247 To obtain the certainty of his preservation, or to render the last honour to his remains, I forced my way towards the spot on which I had seen him awaiting death.

1871 Athenæum 16 Dec. 802/1 Had Rossini, Meyerbeer and Auber lived, they would have all three attended to do the last honours to an artist to whom they all felt deeply indebted.

1927 B. W. Henderson Five Rom. Emperors i. 24 Phyllis takes her place with Nero's sorrowing nurses,..who in like manner had paid the last honour to a dead Emperor's ashes.

2009 D. Schumann Polit. Violence in Weimar Republic i. ii. 40 Delegations from the Reichswehr..and Civil Commissioner Schreiber paid the last honors to the slain soldiers and volunteers.