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'.