exequy
/ˈɛksɪkwi
/noun (exequies)
1 formal Funeral rites: he attended the exequies for the Pope...
- 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.
1.1 (exequy) literary A funeral ode.
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin exsequias, accusative of exsequiae 'funeral ceremonies', from exsequi 'follow after'.
- round-soled
- round someone/thing up
- round something off
- round something out
- round splice
- round stern
- Round Table
- Round Tabler
- roundtail
- round text
- round the bend
- round-the-corner
- round-the-houses
- round-the-table
- round the twist
- round the wicket
- round-the-world
- round-the-worlder
- round-the-year
- round tilth
- round timber
- round-toed
- round tool
- round top
- round towel