单词 | burial-service |
释义 | > as lemmasburial-service burial-service n. a religious service accompanying a burial; a form of words prescribed by ecclesiastical authority to be used at funerals; esp. that used in the Church of England. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > religious rites > [noun] > funeral service funeral1621 burial-service1726 dead-office1858 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 132 If it be not..prohibited..by a Rubrick of the Burial-Service. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 88 The reverend gentleman..read as much of the burial service as could be compressed into four minutes. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xxviii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 379 The faces were not hard at this funeral; the burial-service was not a hollow form. < as lemmas |
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