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Definition of exequy in English: exequynoun ˈɛksɪkwiˈeksikwē exequiesformal 1Funeral rites. he attended the exequies for the Pope Example sentencesExamples - Victoria's last publication was the Officium defunctorum, written, he states, for the exequies of the dowager empress in 1603, and including his famous six-voice music for the Requiem Mass.
Synonyms burying, interment, committal, inhumation - 1.1exequyliterary A funeral ode.
Synonyms lament, dirge, requiem, elegy, funeral chant, funeral song, burial hymn, dead march, keen, plaint, knell
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin exsequias, accusative of exsequiae 'funeral ceremonies', from exsequi 'follow after'. Definition of exequy in US English: exequynounˈeksikwē exequiesformal Funeral rites; obsequies. he attended the exequies for the Pope Example sentencesExamples - Victoria's last publication was the Officium defunctorum, written, he states, for the exequies of the dowager empress in 1603, and including his famous six-voice music for the Requiem Mass.
Synonyms burying, interment, committal, inhumation
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin exsequias, accusative of exsequiae ‘funeral ceremonies’, from exsequi ‘follow after’. |