| 单词 | obitual day |
| 释义 | > as lemmasobitual day 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. < as lemmas |
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