单词 | obitual |
释义 | obitualadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. Originally: of or relating to an obit or a person's death (esp. in obitual day). In later use also: of the nature of, or reminiscent of, a newspaper obituary; obituarial. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [adjective] > recording death obital1690 obitual1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Obituary A Calendar, or Register-Book, in which the Friers in a Monastery enter'd the Obits, or Obitual Days of their Founders and Benefactors. 1856 P. Thompson Hist. & Antiq. Boston, Lincoln 115 In religious houses they had a register..wherein they entered the obits or obitual days of their founders and benefactors, which was thence termed the obituary. 1887 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/1 The Bassoon [sc. a newspaper] was so tearfully obitual. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 30 Nov. 406/3 Obitual days constitute an important, distinctive, and ever recurrent feature in the proceedings of our national Legislature. 1907 E. V. Debs in Writings & Speeches (1948) 286 The painful duty now devolves upon me to write the word ‘finis’ at the close of his work and add a few words of obitual eulogy. 1996 M. Camille in R. H. Bloch & S. G. Nichols Medievalism & Modernist Temper xiv. 372 Christina's book opens with a calendar, rich in obitual evidence of her life, monastic friends, and the family she rejected in order to become a hermit. = obituary n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death roll bill of mortality1645 mortality bill1665 burialsa1687 obital1691 obituary1701 necrology1802 death roll1803 obitual1812 1812 J. Brady Clavis calendaria II. 187 The avaricious Priests registered in their Obituals those persons who purchased such remembrance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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